An Open Letter to Christian Nationalism from a Former White Nationalist, Part 3 of 5: Identity and Duty
We are in fact acknowledging a unique duty to our own people, because they are our own people.
In the previous part of this series, I began my exhortation proper with the first two of six specific issues which I believe are necessary for Christian Nationalism/the New Christian Right (CN/NCR) to address correctly in order to succeed. The first two dealt with personal character and the application of “no enemies to the right,” and besides moral obligation, primarily concerned pragmatic considerations of political and metapolitical strategy. In this part and the following, the next three issues will deal with ideology, on the following topics: race, Jews, and Palestine. The value of Parts 1 and 2 and their more strategic focus is wholly dependent on these three issues, because the latter concern the actual content, or identity, of what CN is.
CN is currently at a crossroads, from which it will either continue its evolution into a radical movement, or detour onto the path of compromise and into failure and irrelevancy, as did conservatism, paleoconservatism, traditionalism, the so-called “dissident” right, and many others. For CN to succeed, it must understand who we are, who our enemies are, and what our duty is. That is what this and the following part are designed to address and to equip the reader for. Our calling is placed upon us by virtue of our identity from God and the urgency of the hour at hand. If we shrink from this, or try to ignore or define away any essential part of it, we will fail with certainty. In contrast, if we hold fast to the truth, by God’s grace it will set us free.
Race
There is no sign anywhere in Scripture that God views or has designed race to be a temporary category. God commanded man to fill the earth and subdue it (Genesis 1:28), and when man failed to do so, God scattered the nations from the Tower of Babel, confusing their languages deliberately to make their unity impossible. Race, ethnos, nation, or blood, all ultimately synonyms, cannot be abstracted away from the very fabric with which we are knit, joining together physical genetics with immaterial spirit; and with the fulfillment of the command to fill the earth, differentiation was inevitable. To look at this and conclude that the resulting racial distinctions are nevertheless an aberration, or a result of sin, is transparently without basis in anything other than the most strained and modern post-hoc justifications for the current hegemony of liberalism and its anti-White project. “The nations” are even found in heaven, as revealed by God in John’s vision (Revelation 21:24–26). The counter-argument that this merely designates individuals rather than groups, already made questionable by the inclusion also of their “kings” (Revelation 21:24), fails utterly, as the word “nations” refers specifically to that which differentiates peoples, and is incomprehensible without a context of collective identity. The races persevere into heaven itself.
The White racial consciousness today growing in the US and across the West echoes the famous adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s poem of the awakened Saxon. We are a uniquely compassionate and generous people, and particularly after decades of anti-White propaganda and education, it has come to us with difficulty to take a second glance at the guests who have made their home on our shores. But with sympathy for the sojourner must also be paired sympathy for our own and compassion for the victims of diversity; and with generosity, justice and loyalty.
Study after study has shown the negative impacts of diversity on the building blocks of society, including cohesion, trust, and charity. Everything that has been tried to level the playing field and produce equal outcomes has failed, and has resulted only in overt discrimination against White people. In the process, our historic communities have been destroyed and given over to foreigners, who made fires with our beautiful oak doors, and spat on all of our overtures, reacting with jealously and violence. Our very way of life and the cohesion of our communities and families have fallen prey to the disastrous effects of trying to make diversity work, for every new attempt has required the further limitation of White rights, even those most basic in our constitution. Race relations have never improved. The same discrepancies always remain: between White and non-White achievement; and between White and non-White violence upon the other. We build, they attack. We are now in a situation in which it is increasingly common for people to conclude that discrimination must be acceptable, because it has become simply impossible to live a different way. As an example, if forced to choose a doctor based on his race alone, most Whites would choose a White doctor—and if not, they would be doing so specifically to spite the racists. We have only become less sure than ever before that any non-White in a position of authority or responsibility has earned it through his own merit and can be trusted to any degree.
Responsibility and loyalty are organized in God’s design in concentric circles. The individual is responsible first to and for his immediate family, then his extended family, then his tribe or community, then nation, then race, then humanity as a whole. Given this, there are two primary reasons to assign a preeminent consideration to race specifically.
The first is that, as described above, it is plain that the problems that come with living with others increase not just significantly, but by all evidence, insurmountably at the level of race. While one will always have some problems living with or near other people, even in our own families, these problems increase by an order of magnitude at the racial level. The second is that White people today are under attack specifically for our race, not any other reason, and therefore the response must be on the same grounds, or else it is simply not a response to the problem. Any arguments to the contrary ultimately boil down to cowardice, to a desire to avoid the social costs that come with being pro-White, which in itself proves the salience of the issue and the insufficiency of any other approach to resolve it.
If these things are acknowledged, then it becomes obvious that we are in fact acknowledging a unique duty to our own people, because they are our own people. Stated thusly, there can hardly be a more defensible, intuitive, rightly ordered, and righteous sentiment to hold or battle line to draw. Love for the people God has given us is a part of love for Him, and that love will motivate courage and sacrifice which will serve as an unparalleled witness of Christ through our lives of devotion to justice.
I stop short of giving specific policy prescriptions. Perhaps, after we regain our sovereignty, it will seem prudent to us to encourage all other peoples to leave our nations. Perhaps we can create other more structured and racially conscious methods of social organization that will mitigate the otherwise fatal issues that come with diversity. Perhaps some combination of the above. What I hope to have established, however, is that we can only act with the righteousness and justice of the true Christian prince if we first discharge our duty toward our own people, to protect them from harm, from the abuse of their generosity, from coexistence with those who will forever live in envy and enmity, and from rule by all foreigners, which Scripture itself calls a curse (Deuteronomy 28:43).
CN will either take the lead on this issue, or cede the current opportunity to do so and the righteous cause to another group. Until the attack on White people is faced head-on and decisively defeated, such that it cannot be mounted again, this issue will remain essential and ever more urgent, and any movement that fails to make it a cornerstone will be crushed by it, and along the way will have wasted not just time, effort, resources, and opportunities, but in fact substantively contributed to the further humiliation and suffering of our people at the hands of our enemies.
Though this section can be thus concluded, I will take it one step further. The next logical implication is that if race is God-designed, and racial identity rightly ordered, then there must also be a telos: a purpose for which we exist on this earth. Whatever that purpose is, and it is beyond the scope of this essay to elaborate on here, it cannot be fulfilled without our perseverance as a people, for obviously we would fail if we allow ourselves to cease to exist. Our God-ordained purpose, then, is necessarily founded on first fighting for ourselves; and those who seek to enslave or destroy us are necessarily, and I would argue consciously, directly opposing God. Those who aid our enemies by standing aside or seeking a middle road in this hour of their people’s need will surely not be judged less harshly.
Further Reading
Carlton, Davis, Nil Desperandum, Adam Grey, Thorin Reynolds, Gic Serry, and Ehud Would. 2021. Faith and Heritage: A Christian Nationalist Anthology. Antelope Hill Publishing. (This content can also be accessed on faithandheritage.com.)
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