“When someone is growing up in a world in which he is confronted with all sorts of unfair challenges, there is a natural and sentimental reaction that wants to soften the challenges instead of hardening the challenger.”
Shared Iniquity
“We must find common ground in Adam. We must find common ground in our shared iniquity. That is the only way out. When we recognize that we are all one great mess in Adam, then we can by the grace of God shake hands in the second Adam—and only there.”
Not a Petty Problem
“Liberal bromides cannot deal with this. Feel-good gospel coalitiony group hugs can’t deal with it. Those with an impotent message have to pretend that racial animosity is really a matter of petty bigotry, because they think they have a message that can handle petty bigotry. But in order to deal with racial animosity, racial hatred, racial hostility, Jesus had to die and rise. The good news is that He did so.”
Just Being Us
“Affirmative action—another grievous white sin, just us being our patronizing selves.”
Overpromised, Undelivered
“The problem with settling scores is that they never get settled.”
And the Cosmopolis Has No Temple
“We serve and worship a cosmopolitan Christ, and there is no cosmopolis apart from Him.”
The Foundational Enmity
“The problem is not that whites hate blacks or that blacks hate Jews or that any given sinner hates any other given sinner. Those things are the fruit of the central problem, but the central problem is that America hates Christ.”
On a Bender Actually
“Somebody needs to tell America what to do, and here it is. ‘Go home, you’re drunk’.”
A New KInd of Racism
[Responding to the charge of racism for saying that “ethnic enmity and ethnic vainglory” are “hated by a holy God”] “Now if this is racism, then racism ain’t what it used to be, and perhaps you all ought to consider becoming racists also.”
Skin and Blood, p. 9
Sorry, Not Sorry
“Some of you may have heard from various unreliable sources that I am a racist. I have written books like Black and Tan and have described myself before as a paleo-confederate and other such monstrosities. And confronted with such undeniable facts as these, I remain singularly unapologetic. This causes some people to imitate the hot froth on top of your average Starbucks drink, and the word indignant doesn’t really begin to cover it.”
Skin and Blood, p. 7