End of White Christian America

[JE Pettibone]

[Jim]

The ending of white Christian America is in process. In fact, the professional social engineers are continually proclaiming the ending process now of white America as a social/cultural entity being slightly slowed presently by a minuscule uptick in white births that will begin slowing soon. The reason, of course, is that the birth-rate of whites is approaching the number at which white births will not enable a white majority, some say by 2050, when the largest segment of the population will be Latino, with the white segment second and the black contingent third largest. Having babies is simply too inconvenient, especially in the two-earner households in which having “things” is more important than promulgating the white population. The Latinos already outnumber the blacks. The U.S. is emulating Europe in this forfeiting of the culture that has made it the preeminent world government. The European biggies like France, Germany and Britain have invited Muslim immigrants to sustain their governments both financially and structurally but did so in the profound ignorance of the breeding habits, much less the bloody sanguinary mandates, of Islamists, among whom a man can have four wives at a time—Sharia law. This must not happen in the U.S. Far better Latino than Arabic/Muslim, remarked recently by the scores of Christians murdered in their churches in Egypt by suicide/bombers.

[Chris]

[Sandy]

[Jim]

[Sandy]

Well, Jim, the lack of clarity in most of what you write leaves room for interpretation. I wasn't sure whether your remarks were the result of being ignorant of history and a lack of willingness to consider facts, or whether it was the kind of racist bigotry we've seen that is characteristic of groups like the National Socialist party or the KKK. But you cleared that up. I got it.

[Jim]

[Sandy]

Beauty is in the mind of the beholder. Clarity depends on the way that an idea is expressed. You're obviously quite miffed about declining white birth rates, whining that the Latino population will outnumber whites at some point in then near future, and that we're "emulating" Europe by welcoming in large ethnic and religious minorities that are somehow counter to the social/cultural identity of "white America". Well, "white Christian America" is a myth that never existed. Native Americans were not easily assimilated, but of course were here long before white Europeans. African Americans were brought as slaves from the earliest days of colonization, and Latinos resulted from the influence of Spain as a major world power. America was never exclusively white, nor Christian.

Our culture is enriched and broadened by the presence of people from all over the world. Far more of them contribute to our society and culture than cause harm. For 16 years, I lived in Sugar Land, a suburb of Houston on the southwest side of the metro area. It was a suburb of mostly newer subdivisions, built since the 80's. In addition to a dozen Christian churches of various types, within about a five mile radius of my house you could find two Buddhist temples (one right across the street from a mosque), two mosques, a Hindu temple, a mar thoma Christian church, a synagogue, an Eastern Orthodox church that had Greek, Romanian and Serbian language services, a large African American SBC congregation, and at least two large Spanish speaking congregations. There were neighborhoods in the Alief area north of there where ethnic minorities clustered together, but in Sugar Land, you could walk down just about any street in any subdivision, and find a dozen different ethnicities or racial backgrounds in just a few blocks. For some reason, our particular little subdivision, three streets and a couple of cul-de-sacs, had a lot of Jewish families, but there were several Indian and Pakistani families, and our neighbors were Latino. No crime issues to speak of, and the high school football team was a rally point for the community. Soccer, of course, was huge, and our Christian school drew many of its students from that immediate area. That's the sort of thing that makes this country great. It's who we are. Oh, did I mention, most of these folks were American Citizens by choice?

"White Christian" America is an oxymoron.

[Mrs Haruo]

Sandy. Our neighborhood is much like the one you wrote of in Texas. The American Baptist church I am a member of was founded to minister to Japanese immigrants but now is a widely diverse group. We have some wonderful pot luck dinners, believe me!

[Dave Roberts]

When I created this post, it was more as a reminder for those of us in Baptist life that our churches are too white, too anglophile, too much associated with a dying cultural model. It has been interesting to see how it has become about the white birth rate and not about how we adjust to what is coming. The author of the study was, IMHO, neither endorsing or bemoaning the change but rather providing statistical and anecdotal evidence of how our society has changed across the years. The resistance to this is much like the Anglo resistance to the Scots coming (since they were heretic Presbyterians), the Irish and Italians coming (since they were Catholic), more Jews coming since they would not be Christian, and the arrival of Slavs from Eastern Europe (since they would be various varieties of Orthodox Christianity). We are a changing nation without question, but what we make of it, especially as Christians, will determine what kind of America and what kind of Christianity we bequeath to the generations that come after us.

[Sandy]