National Affection

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“Whites have almost entirely lost all affection for their ethnic people because they are under a delusion.”

Introduction

There are two types of people that Christians love. First, they love other Christians. This flows from the gospel of Jesus Christ wherein he died for them despite their sin and unworthiness. “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” (1 John 4:11). Second, Christians love their kin. This flows from God’s created order and from that fact that all men were created in God’s image in knowledge, righteousness and holiness. Thus, unbelievers have this type of affection also, but not the first.

However, Christian love is the higher love. All of history is headed in one direction—the second coming of Christ. At that time, he will judge all those who have not obeyed the gospel and will gather his people from every tribe, nation and tongue to dwell with him forever (Rev 7:9). Christians will not have their unbelieving kin in heaven with them, but they will be worshiping God with all his people from all nations.

And yet, Christian affection and natural affection are not in competition with one another. They are different types of love from a different source. Natural affection is sanctified by the gospel, but it remains. Therefore, for example, we expect a godly parent still to have a special and natural affection for his unbelieving adult children. So far, so good.

But what about the natural affection for our extended family or nation? I call this “national affection,” and it is almost entirely non-existent among White people today. Compare the response to George Floyd’s death with Iryna Zarutska’ murder. Although the circumstances of the second were clearly murderous and racially driven, the backlash was nothing like the former. Why? Because Whites are, as a whole, more obedient to civil law, but also because Whites seriously lack national affection.

How do we account for this lack of national affection among Whites in America (and Europe) today? And what should national affection among Whites look like in practice? This will be the theme of my article under three topics. First, I will prove the propriety of national affection from Romans 9:1–5, second, show why it is lacking among Whites today, and finally provide an exhortation to White Christians.

Part 1—The Propriety of National Affection

It is good and right to love one’s own ethnic people more than another ethnic people. This doctrine is taught clearly in Romans 9:1-5.

1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

First, we must recognize that the object of Paul’s sincere (v. 1) and fervent (v. 2) affection was his own ethnic or national people—the Jews, “For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites…” Paul did not speak about his wife, or his children for he was not married. Neither did he focus on his extended family (cousins, aunts, etc). He spoke about his national people.

Second, you must see that he loved them more than any other ethnic people. When did Paul ever use such strong language to describe his love for the Gentiles? Did he ever wish, if it were possible, that he be accursed from Christ for the Cretians? Did he have great heaviness or grief for the Barbarians? Did he have continual sorrow or pain for the Spaniards? He most certainly loved the Gentiles inasmuch as he was the Apostle to the Gentiles (Romans 11:13) and inasmuch as he demonstrated his willingness to suffer to bring them the gospel (2 Corinthians 11:23–28). But he never described his love for another ethnic people as strongly as he did his own Jewish nation. Christ had sanctified this nationalistic Pharisee, but he still had his nationalism. It was approved by the Holy Spirit (v. 1) and therefore Paul is an example to other Christians to have a greater and special love for their own ethnic or national people.

But why did Paul feel this way about the Israelites of his day? First, because it was only natural to do so. “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” (1 Timothy 5:8). Why is a Christian who does not provide for his own worse than an infidel? Because even infidels, by nature, have this natural affection. Furthermore, Paul describes one mark of a society given over to sin as one that is “without natural affection” (Romans 1:31, 2 Timothy 3:3). A second reason for his affection for the Jews came from their association with the true religion. In vv. 4–5, he lists various benefits they possessed as being the Old Testament people of God.

Likewise, White people in America (and in Europe) are much in the same situation as Paul, for Whites have inherited the true religion. A Christian Black man cannot say this about his people and hence this is one difficulty that Christian Blacks have in loving their own. Many Christian Blacks want to escape their own people and live, worship and be educated among Whites. The Black community, as a whole, are given over to a liberal and perverted version of Christianity, or are not Christians at all, but dominated by a matriarchal and violent culture. Yet, Whites in America, despite their sinful culture and more recent apostasy, have a great spiritual heritage. According to God’s gracious providence, they received the gospel. Noah prophesied in Genesis 9:27 that Japheth, the father of White nations, would “dwell in the tents of Shem.” Furthermore, Whites, by God’s gracious providence, received the Reformation and the English (and other Europeans) took the Protestant Reformation to the American continent and formed a nation. The colonies, and eventually the States, were legally and functionally a Christian people for a long time. Thus, Whites today have two reasons for national affection—much like Paul.

However, this is almost entirely absent from Whites today. Whites in America are under a strong delusion. 2 Thessalonians 2:11 speaks to a specific context, but the verse demonstrates that God can and does give a certain people over to a strong delusion, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” By “delusion” I refer to the idea of someone believing a lie despite indisputable evidence to the contrary, and that this irrational grip upon a lie is a sign of spiritual judgment. This is the situation of White people today, and I will expose it under five particulars.

Part 2—The Delusion from National Affection

1: The Denial of Race and Racial Difference

First, Whites today demonstrate an absence of national affection by their consistent denial of the existence of race and racial difference. Dr. David VanDrunen, a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, is a good example of this specific delusion.

Perhaps the most important thing to say about race, in the typical American sense of the word, is that it does not exist. Unlike sex, it has no biological reality, and unlike ethnicity, it has no cultural reality. The human community simply is not divided into half-a-dozen (or whatever) racial groups united by distinct genetic markers or a common culture.¹

If one denies the reality of race, then how can one love his own race? After all, they say, “We are all the same, and the differences amongst mankind are haphazard and can easily change.” But if one reads theologians form the past, they will soon discover that nobody or reputation spoke like this before the 1940s or even 1960s, and that they freely spoke of the races of men without any hesitation.

Some White church leaders today, knowing the absurdity and historical bankruptcy of VanDrunen’s statement, will acknowledge the races of men. But then they quickly deny that there is any real, lasting genetic difference among the races. They may even acknowledge that Whites have proven superior in many areas, but then attribute this solely to the gospel, asserting that other races will catch up in time.

A good example of this specific delusion is found in Drew Poplin of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America: “In grace, there is an entire equality of the nations of this world because they are purchased by the Lamb of God slain for the sin of the world.”² This is a helpful example of the common dogma of racial egalitarianism. But it is in stark contrast to past Christian authors, common sense, and Scripture.

Charles Hodge, the well-known 19th century Presbyterian theologian, wrote:

It is admitted that nations as well as tribes and families, have their distinctive characteristics, and that these characteristics are not only physical and mental, but also social and moral. Some tribes are treacherous and cruel. Some are mild and confiding. Some are addicted to gain, others to war. Some are sensual, some intellectual. We instinctively judge of each according to its character; we like or dislike, approve or disapprove, without asking ourselves any questions as to the origin of these distinguishing characteristics. And if we do raise that question, although we are forced to answer it by admitting that these dispositions are innate and hereditary, and that they are not self-acquired by the individual whose character they constitute, we nevertheless, and none the less, approve or condemn them according to their nature. This is the instinctive and necessary, and therefore the correct, judgment of the mind.³

Furthermore, common sense refutes Poplin’s claim. Everyone who is paying attention knows that Blacks are very good at explosive athletic movements. Thus, from 1960 to 2024, the total percentage of Black finalists for the men’s Olympic 100m dash was 92.9%.⁴ Where are all the Asians, Mexicans and Whites? And why is it so heavily dominated by men from the Black race? Additionally, Charles Murray infamously reports in his extensive study on IQ tests, “The average White person tests higher than about 84 percent of the population of Blacks and that the average Black person test higher than about 16 percent of the population of Whites.”⁵ What honest person will not also report this based upon his experience between the two races? And what else could be said about the many other races and their unique strengths or weaknesses?

And yet, Poplin’s view is rigidly held despite even Scripture speaking to this issue. In Genesis 9:25–27, Noah clearly speaks to the idea of race. He utters blessings and a curse upon his descendants and references his descendants under the name of three people. For this prophecy to make any sense, there must be races of men biologically connected and differentiated between themselves represented under the names of Noah’s seed. This proves the existence of human races. Furthermore, we note that in this prophecy, his descendants are treated differently. Some of subjected to the other races, one is blessed, and another is enlarged. Why would we assume that these blessings and curses would only impact the spiritual aspects of their race and not the natural aspects? It is nonsense.

My point? Whites are deluded from loving their own national people because they refuse to recognize the God-given natural blessings amongst their people. Again, Blacks should love their own, but they have less reasons to than Whites. Whites have built the greatest civilizations and have invented the greatest machines and have many admirable natural qualities compared to other races. Why would they not appreciate, be thankful and be fond of their own people for such things? Because they are not allowed to notice such things. The dogma of racial egalitarianism must be shoved down their throats and blindly held despite the obvious. They must recognize the magnificence of the emperor’s new clothes.

2: The Sin of Nationalism

Another example of White delusion is found in their denial of nationalism. Joshua Torrey, a ruling elder at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Austin, Texas posted on X, “Ethnonationalism is a sin.” The post has received 513,000 views.⁶ By that post, he means to attack the idea that nations are fundamentally composed of people of a common blood, and to assert that amalgamation is Christianity, not Marxism.

Robert Godfrey, a well-known Reformed theologian, has said a similar thing, “Of course, there ought to be an end to white America. America ought to be a multiracial country where everyone is equal.”⁷ And it is common for these types of Christian leaders to think that foreigners invading Europe and America can be called by the historic ethnicities of those lands. Andy Webb, a minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, is a good example speaking of “brits of Indian descent” as if an Indian or Pakistani could really be British.⁸ Many others repeat the same garbage.

Church leaders used to think differently. James. H. Thornwell, a Southern Presbyterian from the 1800s, is a good example of how Christian leaders thought in a former day:

When we came out of the Revolution, it is admitted on all hands that we were separate and independent States. Each was sovereign—that is, completely a nation in itself… the people were of one blood, one language, one religion. They were, in short, one race.⁹

And Thornwell’s quote is consistent with the Scriptures for it teaches that nations are of a common blood.¹⁰ In Genesis 10, each time the nations are summarized under the three sons of Noah (v.5,20, 31) they are described as being an extended family of blood relations, “according to their families.” And when the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron to anoint him as their king, they said, “Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh,” for they all shared a common blood in their patriarch Jacob.¹¹

My point? How can one love their own nation if they do not exist and cannot exist as a nation? The delusion is maddening. An Indian extract living in Britain, even if he adopts Christianity and has a British accent of sorts, is not British and never will be. These men simply want to justify their circumstances to dodge persecution for faithfully proclaiming God’s whole counsel. And as a result, national affection evaporates. And this is all despite the testimony of our fathers and the Word of God.

3: The Support of Invasion

Ask yourself the question, “Where do Whites live?” They have no homeland. Their historic lands have been invaded, and this invasion promoted by the treacherous behavior of White Marxist leaders. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott (among many other civil leaders), openly celebrates the Hindu holy day (Diwali) in honor of his Indian “Texans”—as he calls them.¹² Abbott is a Roman Catholic, but still, he is openly supporting and celebrating the replacement of his own people.

But this type of delusion is also among Reformed church leaders. John Piper, in 2012, posted on X, “Two-thirds of the people in line with me to vote were Somali. I love this neighborhood. This country.”¹³ And the quote above from Godfrey also demonstrates the same support for the invasion and replacement of Whites from their historic American land.

Why is this the case? Many reasons could be given. But most importantly, White people have drunk the poisonous lie that America is a nation of immigrants. They have been told that there is no difference between their White and predominantly Protestant forefathers who settled this land and the many foreign immigrants who have come especially since the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration act. They have been told that America has always been a “melting pot” of cultures, as if the English and Germans were of the same ethnic distance as the English and the Somalians. And as a result, the percentage of Whites in America has gone from 89% in 1940 to 57% in 2015.

White Christian Americans have blindly accepted vague references to loving “the stranger” in the Old Testament instead of considering the actual laws governing naturalization in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 23:7-8).¹⁴ And as a result they have given the national inheritance of their children and grandchildren, of which their forefathers labored and fought, to a foreign godless horde. It is stealing, and it leads to their amalgamation and replacement. It demonstrates a complete lack of national affection.

4: The Sin of Racial Solidarity

I speak of the issue of inter-racial marriage and how many Christian leaders today think that it is sinful for parents to forbid their children from marrying even spiritually compatible Christians from other races solely on the grounds of race. Rev. Gavin Beers, a minister in the Free Church of Scotland (Cont.), is a good example:

I was asked on one occasion would I support a parent forbidding their child to marry someone from another race… I said, “Is it purely down to them being of another race?” … And the answer was yes. The issue is race... I said, “No, we would not support the father because he does not have just cause! He does not have just cause!”¹⁵

Pastors like Beers refer to the “only” stipulation that Paul gives for marriage found in 1 Corinthians 7:39, “only in the Lord,” and cry legalism against those who seek racial solidarity in the marriage partners of their children. However, this is a very modern approach among orthodox Christians. Henry Scudder, a Puritan, wrote in the 1640s:

Suitableness not only in regard of age, but parentage would be convenient: let birds of a feather flock together… They seldom join without confusion, which is commonly the event of such unequal matches, being begun with the discord of parents, and end for the most part in the dissension of parties.¹⁶

Inter-racial marriage is not a sin per se, but it can be per quod (according to the circumstances). It could prove to be imprudent or contrary to other biblical principles (such as that of the nation).¹⁷ And Whites used to think this way regarding marriage. Marriage was not just an individual choice, but because it impacted the family and the nation, national considerations would come into the picture. John Witherspoon (1723–1794), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and a Presbyterian minister, wrote, “Those who treat marriage with ridicule act in direct and deliberate opposition to the order of providence, and to the constitution of the society of which they are members.”¹⁸ He even rebuked those who focused too much on how marriage was “… for the service of the state…”¹⁹

But today, White Christians hardly ever think about such national considerations. Why? Because they lack national affection. They are deluded to think that race doesn’t exist, their racial strengths do not exist, and that nationalism is a sin. Inter-racial marriage has now become a sign of “next-level Christianity,” wherein they are demonstrating repentance from their fathers’ “racism.” It is national suicide and a result of a strong delusion. White people are oblivious to the implications of inter-racial marriage and the extinction of their own people. White women are exceedingly vulnerable to this trend and are the frequent targets of the anti-White party. Everyone wants their children to look like them—except for deluded Whites.

5: The Acceptance of Spiritual Judgment

Most White Christian leaders will acknowledge that the American church is under judgment. They may disagree on why but would admit this much. And one would think that these Christian leaders would seek to undo this judgment. But White Christian leaders are so deluded that they accept it as “God’s will” and actively promote the spiritual judgment of their own people in their own historic lands.

R.C. Sproul, the imminently respected and beloved Reformed theologian, wrote:

I believe that within thirty years the largest and strongest branch of Christendom will be in Africa and that it is absolutely critical that the church in the United States right now pour as many resources as possible into the emerging churches of the Third World, particularly in Africa.

In this quote, he acknowledges the judgment. Although Europe and America has been the seat of the “largest and strongest branch of Christendom,” it is rapidly degenerating. And what is Sproul’s response to this? “Pour as many resources as possible” in a foreign land! Where is his national affection? Where is the spirit of John Knox who said, “Give me Scotland or I die”?

The quote from Sproul sounds orthodox and pious. However, people forget the context of the historic and righteous missionary movements of the 1700 and 1800s. Men like Adoniram Judson, Hudson Taylor, John G. Paton, David Livingstone, left their land and went to serve Christ by preaching the everlasting gospel among foreigners and idolators. Praise God for that! However, they left prosperous White nations and White Churches. They understood that that great commission was a call to evangelize their own nation first. But today, Whites ignore this historical context: to promote world missions is considered pious, and to say the things I am saying is to be “racist.” No! Whites are just deluded with lies and have no national affection.

Imagine if a White man today wrote a letter to a missionary board requesting support and said, “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: who are Whites in America.” He would be rebuked for racism or even excommunicated! It is complete madness! The state of Whites in America and the West is collapsing both spiritually and politically, but Whites must pour as many resources as possible into a foreign country and accept God’s spiritual judgment. Why not consider the reasons for judgment and seek repentance with confession, lamentation, fasting and weeping (Joel 2:12-17)? And why do those like Sproul not do this? It is because they lack national affection. They are deluded into thinking it is unspiritual to love their own people.

I could cite many more examples of White delusion. Their blindness to the anti-White hatred of American society and their blindness to the threat of the Jews are two that immediately come to mind. But I think my point has been well demonstrated. White delusion must be exposed and the unnatural affection that it produces.

Part 3—The Exhortation to National Affection

What must you, White Christian, do in response to this delusion? I will briefly provide five particulars for the individual White Christian.

1: Repent of your own delusion

Where have I rebuked you? Repent and renew your mind. “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Romans 13:2). You might have questions about some of the claims I have made. Do not shrug it to the side simply because it is unpopular or brings persecution. Consider it. Study it. Nothing that I have said in this article is new. Instead, it was either assumed as true in times past or was righteously defended in more recent days during the Civil Rights movement. Now, some of these ideas have become spiritual crimes and social sins. In truth, they are historic and biblical.

2: Mourn their spiritual and political condition

What feelings rise in your heart when you hear of the murder of a White woman jogging in a park by a Black man or foreign immigrant? What emotions do you have when you hear about the non-White invasion of Europe? Do you have any alarm when you realize that your own people have been diminished from 89% to 57% of the population in two generations? Does it not make you grieve when you see a White insecure young lady, immodestly dressed and hanging out with Black thugs on a street corner? Does this not make you grieve? You should. You ought to feel as Jeremiah felt in Lamentations 3:48, “Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

You might object and say, “You are advocating for great upheaval and war!” We are already at war! The invaders will not stop until we are conquered. White women are being raped and murdered at a disproportional rate. Wake up!

3: Plead to God for mercy with prayer and fasting

White delusion, the lack of national affection, foreign invasion, replacement, etc.—all of this is a judgment from God upon Whites in America for our national apostasy (Isaiah 9:12–13). Our nation, like Israel, is being judged for her national sins. The solution, unlike Sproul’s suggestion, is to examine ourselves, repent, and to do so especially with prayer and fasting and weeping (Joel 2:12-17).

You can do that by yourself, with your family, with other believers and even in your own congregation. Who can tell if the Lord will repent of the disaster that he is bringing and we perish not (Jonah 3:9)?

4: Endure reproach and persecution

Some recognize the things that I am saying and agree, but are unwilling to do anything about it. Why? Because of the social reproach and persecution that will come to them personally. Instead, they are content with the relative peace that they still have today and act like Hezekiah who, at the announcement of God’s judgment, said, “Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days” (Isaiah 39:8). They take no significant thought to the condition of their children and grandchildren. The reproach, isolation, persecution from their church, their family and their society overwhelms them before it starts. Have you forgotten the words of Christ? “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” (Matthew 16:24).

5: Do not lose heart

God is sovereign and could lift this delusion quickly if he so desired. He could bring an economic catastrophe that would make America less attractive to foreign immigrants. He could bring about a greater awareness of White solidarity, or a war among our non-White enemies. And yet, if he does not, he has promised to hide his faithful people when he brings judgment upon a land: “Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger” (Zephaniah 2:3).

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