Don't Blame Me!

I have a problem being classed with those with a history different from mine. I am speaking about the various brands of Christianity that practiced a corrupt form of Christianity. 

Looking back at my Quaker heritage, I can say there is no historical guilt in how the Quakers treated the blacks, the Indians, or any other race that Christianity has marginalized. Quakers did not go to war over religious idealogy to gain political power or to displace those who disagreed with them. As Quakers, we should not be classed with those who committed the historical sins of the past. Quakers may have started as a brand of "white Christianity," but the most significant number today are non-white Christians. Worldwide: most recent membership count (2012) = 377,055 

Distribution worldwide of Friends: Africa = 52% North America = 20% Caribbean and Latin America = 15% Europe and Middle East = 7% Asia-West Pacific = 6%. United States: 2007 = 86,837; 2012 = 76,360

Since the time of Constantine, Christianity has been a resistance faith against the evil empire of Satan. It lost its message of peace and forgiveness when it blessed the armies marching off to war. It resorted to extreme violence to destroy other cults and religions. It held major military Crusades to stop Islam. It pushed the world into the Dark Ages and hid the Truth from those seeking a better way of life.

The Church preached virtuous poverty, but its cathedrals were built with donations from the rich and indulgences. Its armies conquered and plundered the world, but the violence was covered with sanctimony and token 'good works. White Europeans were driven by ambition and greed. Still, they hid them with piety, much like today's globalists who invade and destroy nations but go on and on about 'democracy,' 'human rights, and 'western values. Very few divisions of the Christian faith acted Christ-like, but the Faith was an adequate moral cover for their aggressions and material avarice. 

The result is that Christianity has created "white guilt" and victimhood based on racism. The past sins of "white Christians" has produced a generation of "holy victims." These people cannot be criticized without being called a racist. The victimhood of the blacks and Jews has made them "holy victims." Nowhere do I find in the scripture where Jesus associated victimhood with holiness. The reality is anyone can be victimized. A good person can be oppressed, and a bad person can be oppressed. A bully can be bullied. A greedy man can be cheated and victimized by a greedy man. So, mere victimhood doesn't make one good, let alone saintly. Goodness is a matter of the heart. Whether one is a free man or an enslaved person, one can have a wicked heart. If Jesus believed that victimhood was equal to virtue, His message would have been different. After all, why did He not just say all the peoples under Roman Imperial Domination are good-and-holy since they were victims of Roman Power?

But even as Jews lived under the Roman heel, Jesus didn't believe they were automatically good or justified. For them to be good, they had to change their hearts on an individual basis. But in our materialist age, historical morality is often a matter of who did what to whom than what is in your heart. So, blacks can have the dumbest ideas, spew the filthiest nonsense, and wallow in hatred, but that's okay because their historical victimhood in America makes them somehow 'saintly.' The Jews can murder, rob, and steal the homes of the Palestinians because they were victims of the Holocaust and have the right to "reclaim" their land from the evil Palestinians. To speak against their atrocities makes you antisemitic. The "white Jews" have adopted the same idealogy of the past sins of "white Christianity." They have resorted to extreme violence to destroy anyone who speaks against them—forgiveness, Poverty, Peace, and leaving vengeance up to the LORD is not the message of the day.

The guilt of the past has changed how Christians view the present. More than 90% of evangelical "white Christians" support "white Zionist Jews" and cannot see the Christian Palestinian or Syrian Christians being killed daily. The years of America's past dealing with slavery has given blacks the right to riot, steal and murder without repercussion because of slavery. Christian churches fly the banner of BLM with pride, thinking this atones for the sins of the past.

I am sorry that Quakers lost their way when they became more interested in social justice than the soul's salvation. They strayed from the path of righteousness when they changed the message of salvation to a secular message of protecting personal rights. The Quaker's message today is more about addressing the past sins committed by "white Christianity" than dealing with the sins of the heart. 

I cannot change the past, I cannot undo the atrocities committed in the name of Christianity, nor will I be held guilty for the sins of others. I have never owned a slave, oppressed a Jew, denied rights to the LGBT, nor denied others the right to practice a religion other than Christianity. That does not mean I support different beliefs or radical organizations like BLM or Zionists. I can speak against those who use their victimhood to oppress others and deny me the freedom to practice Christianity. It would be pleasing to the LORD if Christians acted like faithful followers of Jesus Christ.

As an Orthodox Quaker, I am thankful for our history of non-violence, peace, and the social justice early Friends practiced. I am grateful to the early Quakers who believed and practiced that all men could be brought to the LIGHT of Christ. So don't blame me if your brand of Christianity is filled with a history of violence and hate. 

 I am grateful to the early Quakers who believed and practiced that all men could be brought to the LIGHT of Christ. So don't blame me if your brand of Christianity is filled with a history of violence and hate. Please don't call me a white supremacist because I am a white Christian. Unlike some branches of Christianity, Zionism, and Islam, which believe that White people are better, more intelligent, more moral, etc., than people of other races and should have more power, authority, and rights than people of different races, I believe that Jesus Christ is ".. .the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."  Salvation is for all men everywhere and we can be joint-heirs with Jesus Christ.