In a previous blogpost, [1] I wrote about
a preposterous claim that Bethany Letiecq, who is a professor at George Mason
University, about the institution of marriage and the preposterous claim that
she made about marriage was that it was a product of white supremacy and as I
read her publication in which she called for the institution of marriage and
the biblical family structure to be done away with, I came across an admission
she made about racial supremacist ideology that I never thought would ever come
from someone like her but which we find being frequently acknowledged and declared
by Young Earth Creationists (Y.E.Cs) and that is that science was being used by
early twentieth century academics to justify white supremacy. Letiecq states:
Belief in White superiority
undergirds the beliefs that White culture is more advanced than other cultures
and that White people should dominate society.
White supremacist ideology was fomented in the academy by intellectuals
worldwide who invented the concept of biological race and espoused eugenic,
race science to promote the proposition that there are biologically deter-mined
and hierarchically ranked racial groups, and that racial improvement could be
achieved through selective breeding.
Working to combat the lasting effects
of White supremacy and eugenics in the modern era, the National Human Genome
Research Institute defined the term “scientific racism” as “an ideology that
appropriates the methods and legitimacy of science to argue for the superiority
of white Europeans and the inferiority of non-white people whose social and
economic status have been historically marginalized” [2]
And in an article going into further
detail by Linda Chatters along with co-authors Robert Joseph Taylor and Amy J.
Schultz, they also explain:
Race science attributes differences
in human population to biology and genetics that reflect a hierarchy of human
races with whiteness at its pinnacle…
The modern era has a long history of
efforts to establish the legitimacy of race science. Race science states that
biological race and genetic endowments explain differences between ‘races’ in
intelligence (IQ), health, physical abilities, cognitive skills, and behavioral
propensities (e.g., criminality). Racial groups are hierarchically ranked, with
those of European background and designated as ‘white’ being superior to other
groups…
Race science and eugenics were
instrumental in identifying desirable versus undesirable immigrants and had a
significant impact on immigration laws and policies that restricted non-white
immigration during the 1800s and the early 20th century, including the Chinese
Exclusion Act, the Johnson-Reed Act, and the Asian Exclusion Act of 1924 that
restricted the immigration of populations deemed unfit. Court cases focusing on
compulsory sterilization established important precedents regarding compulsory
sterilization…
Common knowledge about race science
and eugenics typically associates these beliefs and practices with Nazi
Germany’s doctrine of Aryan racial superiority and the atrocity of the
systematic extermination of Jews and other “undesirable” groups (Roma/Romani,
sexual/gender minorities, disabled). [3]
Which Adolf Hitler affirmed in his
infamous and notorious Mein Kampf:
Any crossing of two beings not at
exactly the same level produces a medium between the level of the two parents.
This means: the offspring will probably stand higher than the racially lower
parent, but not as high as the higher one. Consequently, it will later succumb
in the struggle against the higher level. Such mating is contrary to the will
of Nature for a higher breeding of all life. The presumption for this does not
lie in blending the superior with inferior, but in the complete victory of the
former. The stronger has to rule and he is not to amalgamate with the weaker
one that he may not sacrifice his own greatness.
Only the born weakling can consider
this as cruel, but at that he is only a weak and limited human being; for, if
this law were not dominating, all conceivable development towards a higher
level, on the part of all organically living beings, would be unthinkable for
man…
Therefore also, here the fight
amongst one another originates less from reasons of inner aversion than from
hunger and love. In both cases,
Nature looks calm and even satisfied. The fight for daily bread makes all those
succumb who are weak, sickly, and less determined, while the males' fight for
the female gives the right of propagation, or the possibility of it, only to
the most healthy. But the fight is always a means for the promotion of the
species health and force of resistance, and thus a cause for its development
towards a higher level.
If it were different, every further
development towards higher levels would stop, and rather the contrary would
happen. For, since according to
numbers, the inferior element always outweighs the superior element, under the
same preservation of life and under
the same propagating possibilities, the inferior element would increase so much
more rapidly that finally the best
element would be forced to step into the background, if no correction of this
condition were carried out. [4]
He even believed the reason why
civilizations collapsed was due to inter-racial breeding between the superior
and inferior races:
Just as little as Nature desires a
mating between weaker individuals and stronger ones, far less she desires the
mixing of a higher race with a lower one, as in this case her entire work of
higher breeding, which has perhaps taken hundreds of thousands of years, would
tumble at one blow.
Historical experience offers
countless proofs of this. It shows with terrible clarity that with any mixing
of the
blood of the Aryan with lower races
the result was the end of the culture-bearer. [5]
Chatter, Taylor, and Schultz go onto
explain further:
In actuality, during the 1930s U.S.
and German scientists actively collabo-rated on race science and eugenics
programs, pursued parallel lines of inquiry, and shared plans for developing
legislation for compulsory sterilization.
Laws and policies to control, oppress, and eradicate groups regarded as
inferior to whites (Indigenous Peoples, Blacks, Asians, Latinos, Jews, and
various European ethnicities) emerged from long-held U.S. racial beliefs and
narratives. Race science sought to scientifically confirm accepted narratives
of racial hierarchies by promoting pseudoscientific theories and biological and
genetic evidence of purported race differences. [6]
Not at all surprising since
sterilization laws that had been widely implemented throughout the early
twentieth century and persisted as late as the early 1980s [7] was based upon the belief in the creation and
preservation a superior race by way preventing the propagation of what were
deemed inferior peoples; this practice best known as Eugenics. The best known proponent of the Eugenics
program was Margaret Sanger, founder of The American Birth Control League
which would later be known as Planned Parenthood (I call it Planned
[Murder]hood) and it was her belief in the existence of biologically superior
and inferior peoples that led her to found that organization:
Everywhere we see poverty and large
families going hand in hand. Those least fit to carry on the race are
increasing most rapidly. People who cannot support their own offspring are
encouraged by Church and State to produce large families. Many of the children
thus begotten are diseased or feeble-minded; many become criminals. The burden
of supporting these unwanted types has to be borne by the healthy elements of
the nation. Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our civilization
are diverted to the maintenance of those who should never have
been born. [8]
With Eugenics being the solution:
Eugenics seems to me to be valuable
in its critical and diagnostic aspects,
in emphasizing the danger of
irresponsible and uncontrolled fertility of the “unfit” and
the feeble-minded establishing a
progressive unbalance in human society and lowering the
birth-rate among the “fit.” [9]
Chatters explains even further:
Eugenic theories and scientific
racism held that it was possible to improve the human race (i.e., genetic pool)
by increasing the proportion of groups regarded as genetically fit (increasing
reproduction/immigration) and reducing the numbers of those who were
physically, mentally, and/or morally unfit (reducing reproduction/immigration).
Being “unfit” or dysgenic included mental disabilities, physical disabilities,
and psychological traits. How-ever, being “unfit” also included moral character
and behaviors (sexual promiscuity, out of wedlock childbearing), specific
groups of Europeans (e.g., Eastern and Southern European), and religious, race,
and ethnic groups (those that are Jewish, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian).
Eugenic thought and goals reflected an American social milieu characterized by
racial bigotry and exclusion that explicitly emphasized a racial hierarchy of
white superiority (i.e., white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Nordic). Eugenics
beliefs both embodied and gave license to xenophobia, racism, antisemitism,
sexism, colonialism, and imperialism.
One of the tragic legacies of race
science and white supremacy was the eugenic practice of involuntary
sterilization of women of color and poor women. Sterilization was ostensibly
used as a tool to limit the public cost of welfare associated with the support
of unwed mothers and children, a rationale that, in and of itself, reflects a
complete disregard for women’s reproductive autonomy and violations of medical
ethics and human rights. [10]
Most scientists and academics,
including Professor Letiecq, may reject Eugenics and scientific racism, as we
all should, but what few will really admit is that science based racism, which
led to the Eugenics program in the United States and the Holocaust in Germany
under Adolf Hitler, started with Charles Darwin who is credited for the near
universal acceptance of the theory of evolution and is best known for his work On
The Origin Of The Species in which the theory of evolution, as we know it
today was proposed and then quickly and widely received throughout the
scientific and academic communities.
As is widely known, the theory of
evolution teaches that life and all living organisms which include plants,
animals, and man, through a process of random chance taking place over an
incredibly long period of time came into being, that the first living organisms
which evolutionists believe to have been single-celled organisms had somehow
evolved from a non-living substance and what that substance may have been, they
do not know for sure, and then from those single-celled organisms evolved life
forms of a much more complex nature which began as invertebrate creatures from
which vertebrate creatures arose; the first vertebrates being fish which then
gave rise to amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and then finally man and in
the process of this, inferior life forms were replaced by forms of life more
advanced and that inferior species within each life form died off while the
superior species prevailed and persisted.
Evolution teaches that the death of some forms of life is necessary to
make way for other forms of life and in his lesser known work, The Descent
of Man (2nd edition) Darwin had concluded that if animals were
subjugated to this struggle of what is commonly termed “survival of the
fittest”, then it could not be any different than man. Darwin predicted that, “At some future
period…the civilized races of men will almost certainly exterminate, and
replace the savage races throughout the world.
At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes…will no doubt be exterminated”
[11] and not only did he see this as an
inevitability, but he also saw the elimination of what he perceived to be
weaker and inferior peoples and individuals as necessary for the preservation
of the human race:
With savages, the weak in body or
mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous
state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check
the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and
the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill
to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe
that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would
formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised
societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of
domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of
man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads
to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man
himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
[12]
While Letiecq and most others within
the scientific community may reject or at least claim to reject Eugenics and
science-based racism, they refuse to renounce the very philosophy upon which
the racism they reject was founded and they continue to reject the very
solution to racism which is the God who made man in His image (Gen. 1:26), who
is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34) and who made from one blood all nations
and all peoples (Acts 17:26) thereby making all people equal in His sight and
if we wish to solve the problem of racism, we must discredit the basis that is
used for it in the first place and not only that, we need to turn to the God
who created us all in the first place and who is able to reconcile us all to
one another and all of humanity to Himself and if we are so needlessly divided
against one another, it is because we are estranged from the God who desires
reconciliation between Himself and mankind and for men to be reconciled unto
each other.
God intended for people to live in a
perfect and uninterrupted harmony with one another and for them to experience a
perfect and unhindered relationship with Him and when He created the universe,
there was no disunity nor enmity within humanity, there was nothing causing a
separation between God and man, and there was no conflict between man and
nature but instead, it was a world in which there only existed a perfect
harmony between God, man, and nature and there was nothing withheld from man
except for one thing and that was a fruit from a certain tree called the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil having been warned of God that in the day
that they ate thereof, they would surely die (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) but then they
were seduced by another voice and another spirit who crept into that good world
which God had made and led them into committing that one fateful act of
disobedience that would disrupt that perfect peace and harmony that God had
intended to be in the earth and the spirit responsible for this disruption was
a certain angel call Lucifer who had once served as a covering cherub at the
throne of God until he became so lifted up in his pride that he thought to make
himself equal to God and for attempting to make himself equal to God, he and
those who had sided with him against their Creator, were cast from their places
in Heaven (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19) and it was in that day that Lucifer
became known as Satan or the Devil and after he had been cast from his position
in Heaven, he then crept into the newly formed world in the form of a serpent
and deceived Eve, the first woman whom God made and Adam, the first man whom
God made and who was the husband of Eve into eating of that forbidden fruit by
falsely assuring them that they would not die but that they would instead
become enlightened and even like gods themselves (Gen. 3:4-5) but instead of
receiving the wisdom that they were promised, they only became wise to the
shame that came upon their nakedness (Gen. 3:7) and instead of being raised to
a higher state of being, they were reduced to a state of being inferior to that
in which they were created, and the sentence of death came upon them just as
they were warned (Gen. 3:19) because it was when they had eaten of that
forbidden fruit that sin had entered into them and with sin came death because
it is in sin that death has its power and not only that, it is sin that causes
separation between God and man and it was through that act of disobedience
which was brought about by a lie and the very lie that led to the eating of
that forbidden fruit was the very lie that brought division and discord into
the world and that division and discord began between God and man before it
took place between men and not only did sin cause a separation between God and
the first man Adam and the first woman Eve, it has also caused a separation
between God and all of humanity because the sentence of death did not stop with
Adam and Eve.
It was then passed down from them to
all of mankind and since we are all descended from Adam and Eve, we have also
inherited from them that inwardly corrupt condition of our nature (Rom. 5:12)
which the Bible calls sin and this inherited inwardly corrupt condition of our
nature does not just affect our actions, behavior, or the words that we speak,
but it darkens our hearts, perverts our thoughts, and corrupts our motives
which is why it is written that we are defiled by the things from without, but
that which is from within (Mt. 15:11, 17-20) and it is the defilement from
within that brings death to us all which is why it is written that the wages of
sin is death (Rom. 6:23) and not only are we subjected to death because of sin
but the entire creation itself is also subject to a curse because of sin (Rom.
8:19-22) which is why we live in a world in which death, decay, pain, and
suffering abound and it is all due to one act of disobedience committed by our
first two ancestors but worse even still, that act of disobedience gave Satan
justification to claim lordship over the nations, peoples, kingdoms, and
empires of the earth (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) thereby diminishing the dominion
over the earth that had once been given to Adam (Gen. 1:26) and just as sin
caused separation between Adam and his Maker, so our own sin which we inherited
from Adam also estranges us from our Creator because that which is in sin
cannot dwell in the direct presence of He who is without sin and is holy which
is all who die in their sin cannot enter the Kingdom of God lest their sin
should defile the Kingdom of God the way it has defiled the earth and the same
sin which brings a separation between us and our Creator is also the same sin
that causes us to be divided against and estranged from one another and is the
cause of racial division, gender and generational gaps, the separation of the
different economic classes, and cultural divides that we witness today and that
evil sower of discord among men who would otherwise be united and of one mind
first sowed discord in Heaven before he brought discord to the earth which is
why all division be it men divided against God or men divided against each
other does not begin with skin-color, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age
differences, politics, or economic and social status but it begins spiritually
which is why before any other form of reconciliation can take place, there must
first be a spiritual reconciliation with our Creator which God desires with all
of mankind He is not willing that any should perish but that all would come to
repentance (2 Pet. 3:9) God has provided redemption in one man in whom there is
no sin (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) and who came to us as God in the flesh, being
in the form of a man (John 1:14) to take away the sins of the world and the one
who came into this world to purchase redemption on behalf of sinful man is none
other than Jesus Christ our Lord, Savior, Maker, and King, who being without
sin, was made eligible to be that perfect and unblemished sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27)
that was needed to take away our sins which was done through His death on the
cross upon which He was crucified and after having purchased with His blood our
redemption, was raised again from the dead for our justification (Rom. 4:25) so
that any calling upon Him for the forgiveness of sins in sincere faith and
repentance would be justified before God the Father by Him and in Him (Rom.
10:13) and with the redemption of our souls comes a transformation (2 Cor.
5:17) that causes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly
pursuits but after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven, (Mt.
6:33)
to no longer take pleasure in those
things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that
which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the
lies of this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ
Almighty, (Jn. 14:6) no longer placing our hopes in the things of this present
world, but looking forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly
resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our
needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, (Mt.
6:25-33) recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He
brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets
our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might
acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God,
to no longer fear what men can do to
us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an
account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible
institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God
who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our
lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His
Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our
lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but
the glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible
men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that
those men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and
servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves
with the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of
the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, nor
depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice, but
only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
And we look forward to the day that,
just as our souls have been redeemed and delivered from eternal damnation, when
we shall also be delivered from bodily death when that which is sinful is made
sinless and that which is corruptible is transformed into that which is
incorruptible (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) for wherein dwells no sin
there is no death and finally, creation itself will also be liberated from the
curse that has come upon it because of sin, when Satan who is the adversary of
our souls and is that thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy (Jn. 10:10)
is given his final sentence and cast into eternal damnation along with all who
have sided with him (Rev. 20:10-15) and after that, the creation will then be
made anew, and it will be a creation in which there will dwell no death, no
decay, no evil, no darkness, no grief, no sorrow, and no misery, and no
hardship, but only light, life, happiness, peace, contentment, and joy before
the Lord God Almighty for all eternity. (Rev. 21-22)
If you have not done so already and
would like for there to no longer be any separation between you and your Maker
but experience reconciliation to Him, then I urge you reader to call upon the
name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and your
place in that Kingdom will be assured.
It is but a prayer of sincere faith and repentance away:
"Lord Jesus I need you.
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of
God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know that God is not concerned with
the words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but with the attitude of
your heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive
you of your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in
nothing else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
End notes:
1. D.H. Manheim, “Professor Claims Marriage Is A
Product Of White Supremacy,” Contender’s Edge, June 28, 2025
2. Bethany L. Letiecq, “Theorizing White
heteropatriarchal supremacy,marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms
thatmaintain family inequality,” Journal of
Marriage and Family Volume 86, Issue 5: Special Issue on Theory and Methods,
pg. 1188, January 11, 2024
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.12971
3.
Linda M. Chatters, Robert Joseph Taylor, and Amy J. Schultz, “The return
of race science and why it matters for family science,” Journal of Family
Theory & ReviewVolume 14, Issue 3: Transformative Family Scholarship:
Theory, Practice, and Research at the Intersection of Families, Anti-Racism,
and Social Justice, pp. 442-443, 446 September 2022
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jftr.12472
4.
Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” pp. 390-391, Reynal & Hitchcock, New
York; arranged with the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston Massachusetts, 1941;
originally published in 1925, by Verlag Frz. Eher NACHF. G.m.D.H
[Was written by Adolf Hitler while he was in prison in 1924. The earliest
translated versions from German to English were abridged. The 1941
version is fully annotated, complete, unabridged, and with commentary and it is
because it is an unedited and unabridged version that I chose this source deeming
it to be the most reliable and trustworthy version in revealing to us what was
in the mind of Hitler and the foundational ideology and philosophy that drove
his policies and actions.]
https://purl.stanford.edu/wf256tk4600
5.
Ibid., pp. 391-392
6.
Chatters, “The return of race science and why it matters for family
science,” pg. 446
7.
Ibid. pp. 444-445
8.
Margaret Sanger, “The Pivot Of Civilization,” pg. 104, New York
Brentano’s Publishers, 1922
https://ia800607.us.archive.org/7/items/pivotofcivilizat00sang/pivotofcivilizat00sang.pdf
9.
Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control Review; American Birth Control League
Statement,”
Vol. 5, pg. 18, December 1921
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924007352325&view=1up&seq=246
10.
Chatters, “The return of race science and why it matters for family
science,” pg. 446
11.
Charles Darwin, “The Descent Of Man And Selection In Relation To Sex;
2nd edition revised and augmented,” pg. 156, London: John Murray, Albemarle
Street, 1874
https://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1874_Descent_F944.pdf
12.
Ibid. pp. 133-134
Scripture references:
1.
Genesis 1:26
2. Acts 10:34
3.
Acts 17:26
4.
Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
5.
Isaiah 14:11-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19
6.
Genesis 3:4-5
7.
Genesis 3:7
8.
Genesis 3:19
9. Romans 5:12
10.
Matthew 15:11, 17-20
11.
Romans 6:23
12.
Romans 8:19-22
13.
Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:6-7
14.
2 Peter 3:9
15.
2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 4:15
16.
John 1:14
17.
Hebrews 7:26-27
18.
Romans 4:25
19.
Romans 10:13
20.
John 14:6
21.
2 Corinthians 5:17
22.
Matthew 6:33
23.
Revelation 21-22
24.
Matthew 6:25-33
25.
Matthew 10:28
26.
1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
27.
John 10:10
28.
Revelation 20:10-15
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