Paula

Thatmom,

I did a little reading on kinism, and they deny the racist label. Problem is, if restrictions are put on people due solely to race, that’s racism, and kinism does this (just as it’s sexist to put restrictions on people due solely to gender.) One does not have to desire the extermination of the other in order to be racist or sexist. But where kinism and sexism differ is in the fact that sexism does consider males to be superior.

Their racism differs from the KKK in that they do not technically consider a particular race to be superior, but only that all races must be kept separate. They believe this is God’s divinely established order from the Tower of Babel. (My view: the Tower of Babel only forced people to scatter, which was what God actually had decreed, but people disobeyed and stayed in one spot. When they were forced to scatter, they did not intermarry, not because of race, but because of language barriers. This made each language group a reduced gene pool, resulting in unique sets of genetic traits such as skin color, eye color, hair color and texture, etc. Simple genetic science, not divine decree.)

But kinism also goes beyond race, to tribal or “kinist” segregation. They reject modernity and believe God ordained an agrarian society. And of course they are patriarchal, making them sexist as well.

I don’t know of any teaching in history, any government or society, any religion or philosophy, that truly views women as fully equal to men except the Bible itself. Jesus and Paul treated women equally and taught the same, and the church was supposed to be the showcase of not only equality of gender, but also of race and social standing (Gal. 3:28). The church was fairly quick to obey the “Jew or Greek” part, very very slow to obey the “slave or free” part, but continues to dig in its prideful heels against the “male or female” part. This is the most ancient hatred, that of the serpent against the woman, and the church should be ashamed for calling Jesus’ work on the cross inadequate to conquer that “emnity”.