Blog & Mablog - So Define Ethnicity for Us | Doug Wilson

Blog & Mablog
Oct 25, 2023
So Define Ethnicity for Us | Doug Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WK11MEWbZ4
Pastor Doug Wilson writes a letter to a fictional young man who wants advice for navigating ethnic issues.

"So we have all these different tribes, all over the world, doing their thing. Where does all the animosity between them come from? And what are these distinct ethnicities exactly, between which the animosities arise? How shall we define the ethnoi, in other words?

Let me address the animosity first. There are many proximate causes, but the ultimate one appears to have been a divine design feature. As I argued in my last letter, the Lord was the one who scattered all the nations into their various ethnic enclaves by means of confusing their languages. The reason He did this was to disrupt their ability to work together. The opposite of being able to work together is being at odds with one another, and in a fallen world conflict arises naturally from that. Given the fallenness of man, if there was going to be unity, that unity was going to be deployed in the service of wickedness, and so God put a halt to that."

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