Am I more 'black' than I am human? Growing up, I never needed my heroes to share my skin color to relate to them. Why? Because they were already like me—they were human.
It is unwise to use the term ‘race’ to refer to skin color. There is only one human race with distinct ethnicities. In a war for truth against lies, we must win the battle for the dictionary, including the terms we employ regarding human beings.
Yet, in a world molded by Darwin's shadow, many have embraced the twisted doctrine that ethnicities signify different species, ‘races’ carved into a hierarchy of worth.
The notion of 'race' is a dehumanizing lie, an attempt to strip certain beings—made in the image of God—of their dignity. Whether Nubians, Persians, or Jews, we are all the same race: human; endowed with souls, intellect, the gift of speech, and the divine spark of creativity.
Many falter in discerning the difference between ethnicity and culture, mistaking skin color for the source of a society’s strengths or flaws.
This conflation has led to the error of attributing the superiority of a culture to the ethnicity of its people or, conversely, deeming a culture inferior based on perceived ethnic inferiority—as if ethnicity and culture were indistinguishable, fused in an unbreakable bond.
As ethnic malice continues to rage, whether from Critical Race Theorists or from White Supremacists, Christian’s ought to be visible and vocal in their articulation of truth regarding what it means to be made in the image of God.
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