I have listened to John MacArthur’s response to a question about what the Bible would say about Charlottesville 3 times. He gave a masterful biblical explanation of how desperately wicked the human heart is.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9
While his explanation of why people would act as they did in Charlottesville was on target, his summary of the implications rang hollow. Mr. MacArthur’s summary of the Charlottesville event was that it was just an opportunity for “angry, hostile, self willed, selfish people to explode.” From his perspective, what was on display was a proud angry mob expressing itself. In fact he said of the entire event, “All I see in that is the justification of anger.”
I wonder if Mr. MacArthur was given the opportunity to think further about what the angry people were exploding about whether he would be so quick to say, “This is not about race.”
The PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) in 2004 defined it as follows: Racism is an explicit or implicit belief or practice that qualitatively distinguishes or values one race over other races.
The people who were there exploding with anger have given testimony about what their anger was directed toward and they seem to know very well it was all about race!
Mr Spencer is one of a number of white nationalist leaders who have given voice to a legion of angry white men who feel that their status in America is being eroded by multiculturalism, feminism, global trade and affirmative action.
Our people are subjugated while an endless tide of incompatible foreigners floods this nation every year, the group says on its website Vanguard America.
If current trends continue, White Americans will be a minority in the nation they built.
Our America is to be a nation exclusively for the White American peoples who out of the barren hills, empty plains, and vast mountains forged the most powerful nation to ever have existed.
We’re never backing down. The fact that you treated us this way, the fact that you treated American citizens who are peacefully assembling this way is an absolute outrage.
I have never been so offended in all my life. You think you won? You looked like complete fools.
We’re going to make even more of a fool of you when we’re back here because we do not give up.
Our movement is about our identity and our future and we’re not going to give up.
It is crucial for Christians to understand that the heart of our problems resides in the evil hearts of mankind. However, that was and is not the only truth on display in Charlottesville and our society at large. Please let more of our pastors and ministry leaders step forward and not minimize what was also on display in Charlottesville on August 12th — ugly, hostile, dehumanizing, treacherous, hateful racism.
We have this future to look forward to and to work toward!
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.” Rev. 7:9
