There exists no superior race or collection of people whether by physical, intellectual or economic measurement. All of humanity is equal in the eyes of God and under the law of sin. God has no superiors. “Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.” ~ Psalm 62.11, NRSV
Race is neither a biological reality or a scientific fact. “Scientists have actually been saying for quite a while that race, as biology, doesn’t exist- that there’s no biological basis for race. And that is in the facts of biology, the facts of non-concordance, the facts of continuous variation, the recentness of our evolution, the way that we […]
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life and there are few who find it.” ~ Matthew 7.13-14, NRSV Apart of the insightful […]
Race as a category for identity or a means by which to identify one’s self is a modern concept. “The very category of ‘race’– denoting primarily skin color– was first employed as a means of classifying human bodies by Francois Bernier, a French physician, in 1684. The first authoritative racial division of humankind is found in the […]
Evolutionary geneticist, Dr. Richard Lewontin, speaks at the Hitchcock Lectures at UC Berkely on race and genetics, the effects of migration, invasion, conquest and subsequent rape. He asserts that race is a “social reality” but not a biological reality, that there is no single gene that differentiates one so- called race from another. Lewontin says, “We don’t […]