Indigenous and Non-Western Peoples Are Held Down by “Resilient Pagan Practices,” and Mocking Stolen Native Land Is Patriotic

Those who recoil from an ordinary and humane patriotism, as is common on the left, try to pretend that there have been no blessings at all—and thus they don’t have to worry about stewardship of blessings either. If everything we have was stolen from Indians in order to rape the land, then it doesn’t make sense to think of our responsibilities in terms of stewardship.

This is what life outside of Christ is normally like—red and yellow, black and white—and even when the gospel of Christ comes to a people, it can often take centuries to get them to knock off some of their more resilient pagan practices. For example, how long did it take Europeans to get rid of polygamy? And at the headwaters of the slave trade to America there were blacks going to war with other blacks, enslaving their brothers, taking them down to the coast, and selling them.

‘You see, the reason we cannot allow you to publish editorials that are critical of our august leaders in Congress is that we are afraid your views might lead to a drastic increase in sickle cell anemia in our African American communities. Which is why your impudent request to publish those editorials has to be seen as profoundly racist.’ But the reason it cannot be racist, to borrow a page from Titania McGrath, is that I identify as a white person of color.