“And [God] made from one every nation of people to
live on all the face of the earth…” (The Apostle Paul at Athens)
The interchange which begins this
paper effectively seeks to overthrow a critical component for constructing our
Constitution, which is the biblical doctrine of sin. It is beyond debate, for example, that the
separation of powers into three branches of government is grounded on the view
that all people everywhere are all sinners.
Yet both Mitchum and Skolowsky would effectively (not intentionally) ground
society into the racist posture that blacks are, by definition, free from
racial inclinations, while whites by contrast are the sole source of societal racial
maladies by their very essence. The
prospect of where this absurdly naïve view of humanity will eventually lead, is
horrifying to ponder.
In addition, when Skolowski said, “omitting
any mention of the systematic aspects of racism pro-motes a certain viewpoint
itself,” he overlooked the fact that his view cuts both ways. By seeking to elevate “systematic
racism” to the highest rank, both persons in actuality destroy dialogue by singling
whites out as morally inferior. By
contrast biblical anthropology views each and every person as both created
in the image of God (Genesis 1:26, Acts 17:26, above) and at the same time,
fellow participants in sin (Romans 5:12).
It must even further be stated that this second point rests NOT solely
on biblical dogma, but also on rational observation. Finally, Skolowski failed in his determination
to focus “on reflecting the real world usage of the world” by doing
the exact opposite; and that in two ways.
Firstly he snubbed half the populace solely to placate a minority view. Secondly, he dismissed a self-evidently valid
definition that rightly ranked number 1 up to now. In so doing he violated the rational
principle that abstract definitions should precede pragmatic ones
which are alleged to follow from the former.
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