Thread: This White Man's Christianity

One of Instauration's excellent writers, NBF, wrote on page 15 of the December 1992 issue
the following in response to a letter written to Instauration by someone calling himself,
Zip 761.

Zip761 says that his Jesus was not prejudiced, and during His short residence on earth was a Jew. Perhaps I should introduce Zip761 to my Jesus. Yes, I am a Christian, although a fearful backslider. I am not your kind of Christian, however. My kind of Christian has been around since Christ. Your kind of Christian, my friend, has been around only since sometime in the 19th century, when so many Christians lost their faith and tried to replace it with a mixture of sickly piety, hypocritical goo, and good works. All the better when directed exclusively towards our dark 'brothers.' I might add that your kind of Christian did not emerge in true, complete, thoroughly articulated form until the invention of the television.

Your kind of Christian considers it God's work, and can't do enough, to encourage interracial marriage, homosexuality, and other perversions. My kind of Christian calls these things what they are, abominations...Your kind of Christian blindly supports United States aid to Israel oblivious to the suffering, hatred, and horror that the aid causes to the Palestinians and other non-Jews in the Middle East...My kind of Christian knows that the Jews are the eternal enemies of our faith, that they consider our Savior the illegitimate offspring of a single mother and laugh at the Gentiles who think they win brownie points with the 'chosen' merely by abasing themselves before the golden calf of Zionism.

Your kind of Christian is determined to ignore the danger threatening to destroy what our people labored for centuries to build...Your kind of Christian makes a virtue out of hatred for his own people, kissing the feet of aliens who smirk at you with contempt...My kind of Christian knows that love must begin at home, first with the family, then with friends and neighbors. We do not hate the stranger, but we know how to distinguish between him from our own kind...Your kind of Christian apologizes for his faith, changing his Holy Book to suit the tastes and dictates of Jews and searches desperately for common religious threads with Judaism when, in fact, such common threads do not and cannot exist...My kind of Christian had the moral strength to demand that respect be shown to Christianity and burned at the stake those who mocked or attempted to undermine it.

It is true that love and compassion, as well as forgiveness and mercy form the bedrock of true Christianity as we understand it. This does not mean, however, that the true Christian is a fool, or a coward, cringing before his enemies absorbing endless insults or slaps in the face as he refuses to see the world as it is. It was Christianity that inspired many of our greatest men and women to perform acts of the most sublime courage, endure the hardest imaginable trials and yet triumph over the most fearful odds...Whatever Zip761 and his friends, have turned it into today Christianity was not always a creed for losers and dupes. Even Christ had His limits, as He proved in the most graphic manner when He kicked the spiritual, and perhaps literal, Jewish ancestors of the Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken types out of the temple.

To be a Christian is not to abandon this earth completely, to pretend that black is white, or to lie to yourself. A Christian is bound to his duty like any other person. How dare you try to use your faith as an excuse for not standing with your own kind. If you have no feeling for your own people or lack the guts to stand with them in their most trying times, then so be it. But don't try to excuse your actions by appealing to the tenets of your faith.

In his letter Zip761 says that Jesus was not prejudiced, a view which I can certainly accept. I am not prejudiced either. The judgements I have made of people, races, institutions, and other things have been made only after careful study and the contemplation of my personal experiences. I have 'pre-judged' nobody and nothing. I always stand ready to admit my errors and correct my views, as any reasonable person would.

Zip761 says that Jesus was a Jew in the years of His mortality. True enough, I suppose, but utterly irrelevant. One of the most important messages of Jesus was that there were no 'chosen' people, except those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. The Crucifixion destroyed for all time the special status of the Jews, if indeed they ever enjoyed it, except in their own minds. Those Christians who accord some special status to modern-day Jews are not only wrong in terms of common sense, they are terribly wrong in terms of theology. A Christian, I repeat, cannot accept the idea that present-day Jews have a different status than any other non-Christian. They are simply people who having heard the Word of Christ, rejected it. Nothing more, nothing less! By acting as if Jews in the modern world deserve some special dispensation because of their religion or ethnic background, you are rejecting your own faith in the most humiliating manner and earning nothing but the scorn of the Jews in return.

One of the things Jesus tried to do was free the Jews from the chains of their own false religion, a tribal religion that excluded all others. Many Jews listened and accepted Christ. Many did not. The resentment and spite the latter have carried around as baggage ever since has wreaked untold havoc on our world. It is time Zip761, to free yourself from a warped version of our faith.

N. B. F.
　
　
　
　

Jesus was prejudicial to be sure but the only people he truly hated were jews.
The Canaanite woman got it right she wasn't part of the covenant and never
could be and she knew it. But she could get crumbs from her masters table.
I have spoken to nonwhites of the true racial message of Christianity and
they were a lot more open than most even if they didn't agree.