Hi!
Racial discrimination and exploitation
have been around for a very long time.
However, when the so-called "scientific theory"
of evolution became popular,
things got worse.
Many came to believe that
some groups of humans were either
more evolved or less evolved than others.
Racists celebrated Darwin's idea on
natural selection and the survival of
the fittest,
and readily embraced evolution as a
"scientific" backing for their racist
thinking and behavior.
A disgraceful outcome of this ideology
was eugenics. Do you know what that is?
It's also called "racial hygiene..."
Eugenics was proposed as a method of
improving or purifying
the human race by only allowing
"good genes," or "desirable characteristics"
to be perpetuated.
According to this view, humans must play
an active role in the evolutionary process
by making sure that defective people
would not give birth to offsprings.
How does that sound? Just think it true...:
Who will decide what features are
desirable, and what are not? And who will determine
who's defective, and who is not?
I believe my group is more evolved than the other groups, so we deserve to be promoted...
Really??? And how about the others...?
See, people that think like this
would always keep castration and
sterilization at hand...,
and from that, genocide, slavery
lynching, and other atrocities are just
one step away...
Today such ideas are not openly popular.
Scientific discoveries regarding the
human genome have made the idea of
racial superiority or inferiority untenable.
But let's face it: many still have that mentality,
and too many Christians endorse evolutionism as
part of a divine plan for the betterment
or perfection of humanity.
The more evolved you are the closer you
are to the divine, and, therefore, you're a better recipient
of divine favor.
Nope!
That's all wrong! Do you know why?
Because God isn't racist!!!
