Of Whiteness...

Thoughts after listening to Brian Sauve's latest King's Hall podcast, "Of Whiteness...."

When woke people make you feel guilty for being white, the proper response is not to take pride in being white.  Any pride in cultural achievements must always be tempered by gospel conviction of sin, more than comparing your culture favorably to other cultures.  God's holiness is the standard, not the politics of man.

Skin color is morally neutral, and whiteness is not a "proxy" for Christianity.  When the left attacks white identity and Christianity, it does so out of envy against the majority, as all the players in a board game go after the one who is starting to win.

White people face reverse discrimination today, as the podcast points out.  The solution is not to embrace or advocate for whiteness in any way, other than to say, "It's as okay to be white as it is to be black or brown."  Conservatives today are in the same position as blacks in the 1960s: many were tempted to Malcolm X's more radical position, favoring blacks over whites, and working for it violently.  So today, conservatives are tempted to the politics of power, aggressive rhetoric, and group assertion.  But MLK had the right dream: judge people by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.

The woke left is a leveling force, akin to the French Revolution as Sauve points out, seeking to be the "more equal" pigs of Orwell's Animal Farm.  They want God's power - that's why they attack His image in the world, and accuse everyone else of being motivated only by power.  It's literally Satanic.  Western civilization and Christianity are in the way of their goals.

To assume they are really just after us as Christians is partially true (see Revelation 12:13-17).

But to respond with White Boy Summer is weird, and very off base.

Instead, the church needs to continue to assert that God is there, and has made us all in His image.  That Jesus has restored our broken humanity.  This gospel is what gives every person equal dignity, freedom of conscience, and brotherhood/fellowship (fraternitie).  

The state cannot give us those three hallmarks of the French Revolution.  

Neither can your assertion or celebration of your particular heritage or identity.

Only the Gospel of Jesus the Christ can do this.