The Elephant in the Room
TimeWatch Editorial
November 12, 2015
For quite a while now, this nation has managed to avoid dealing with its unsolved issues of race. The moral equivalent of the legislative ‘Emancipation Proclamation’ has never really been passed. Simmering beneath the surface, the uneasy integration of a hundred and forty years has managed to remain reasonably manageable. Hiring and housing guidelines, along with a plethora of federal and state watchdog organizations have managed to drive any overt manifestations underground. But the symptoms have always been there, because the philosophical convictions have never gone away.
SJ Reidhead is an author. She has written two western novels, and several other books. According to the blogcritics website, even though she is not happy with the control of the far right where her Republican Party is concerned, she is totally committed to frustrating the efforts of the far left of the Democratic Party to, as she sees it, “destroy” the United States. It would therefore be safe for us to begin with her view of the landscape.
In an article dated May 28, 2008, entitled “Not So Very Christian Conservatives,” she writes the following:
“Rushdoony, whose book is revered by Reconstructionists as their foundational document, was also a racist. He opposed "unequal yoking" — interracial marriage or even "enforced integration" — insisting in the book that "all men are NOT created equal before God. Moreover, an employer has a property right to prefer whom he will in terms of 'color,' creed, race or national origin." The Bible, Rushdoony wrote, "recognizes that some people are by nature slaves." SJ Reidhead, “Not So Very Christian Conservatives,” May 28, 2008
This is how S.J Reidhead describes the hero of the far right of her republican party.
She continues, talking about Rushdoony:
“In fact, American slavery was "generally benevolent" despite misguided attempts to make whites feel guilty about it.” SJ Reidhead, “Not So Very Christian Conservatives,” May 28, 2008
She then proceeds to inform us that:
“Although most fundamentalist leaders now deny holding Reconstructionist beliefs, several — including Beverly and Tim LaHaye (see Concerned Women for America), Donald Wildmon (see American Family Association) and D. James Kennedy (see Coral Ridge Ministries) — did serve alongside Rushdoony and other Chalcedon associates on the Coalition for Revival, a group formed in 1981 to "reclaim America."…” SJ Reidhead, “Not So Very Christian Conservatives,” May 28, 2008
So who is this Rushdoony? In his book: Institutes of Biblical Law, Rushdoony says:
“The white man has behind him centuries of Christian culture and the discipline and the selective breeding this faith requires… The Negro is a product of a radically different past, and his [genetic] heredity has been governed by radically different considerations.”
“The move from Africa to America was a vast increase of freedom for the Negro, materially and spiritually as well as personally.” But he said the slaves never thought in terms of freedom, and that’s why Liberia never worked out. He called slavery “an albatross that hung the South, that bled it,” because the slaves were lazy. “Only a minority of the slaves ever worked.” He said white men were hired to do the hard work.
It is easy to forget the influence of these men upon the politics of today. A careful study of the recent past will reveal that the religious right is a consolidation of very exact opinions on every aspect of life. We are therefore swiftly approaching the final stages of fulfillment of a long foretold conclusion of national and global events. The racism that simmers just below the surface after all these years, may not at first appear to be a part of the prophetic warning, however it truly expresses the prevailing arrogance of the anti-Christ. This “better than thou conviction” does not fall far away from the “master race” ambitions of the second world war, in fact it is indeed motivated by the same luciferian lust.
Cameron A. Bowen
