A
Plea to FPCS Elders by
J. Parnell McCarter
In 1962 the
Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland (FPCS) issued a synodical “Declaration on
Apartheid” as noted at http://www.puritans.net/articles/apartheid.htm
. My plea to the current elders of the
FPCS is that such declaration be updated and amended. My plea has been submitted in the form of a letter I
have sent to a number of such elders.
While there are aspects
of Apartheid South Africa I certainly disagree with, the idea of distinct
nations for the different peoples, which the definition of ‘apartheid’ below
allows for, I agree with provided it is a system which allows for exceptions
like Old Testament Ruth, Rahab, and Uriah:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/apartheid -
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2. any system or practice that separates people according to color, ethnicity, caste, etc.
I
believe on confessional grounds, and most importantly on Biblical grounds, that
there is a Biblical form of “apartheid” so defined. The principle of “lawful war”, as referenced
in Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 136 and such prooftexts as Deuteronomy 20:1
(which speaks of the right of defense of Jewish national property rights by
Jews), is predicated on such (ethnic) national property rights. In
the absence of such ethnic national property rights, there is little chance
that individual property rights of the members of that (ethnic) nation will be
maintained either. For example, remove the right of the Jewish
nation and its defense as the state of Israel to exist, or remove the right of
the Afrikaner nation and its defense to exist, then in all likelihood the
neighboring Arabs and black Africans will take away much or all of their
individual property. This sense of “apartheid” simply means
separation of people according to ethnicity. If there is no Biblical
form of apartheid, but instead all separations of people according to ethnicity
are immoral, then there can be no ethnic nations, which means there can be no
morally valid ethnic national property rights. Concretely, if Jews
or Afrikaners cannot separate themselves from other peoples and have a nation
which they rule, then there will be no Jewish or Afrikaner nation. The FPCS synodical position no doubt allows
for and recognizes individual property rights, but it can be interpreted as
rejecting that there is any Biblical form of apartheid, and by so doing if
consistently applied rejects explicitly ethnic nations and ethnic national
property rights. So while I agree and
applaud FPCS defense of individual property rights, if it is accompanied by a
rejection of any Biblical form of apartheid (which, to repeat, can allow
exceptions such as we find in Old Testament Israel with Ruth, Rahab, and
Uriah), then I see it as having very limited practical value in really
protecting even individual property rights, much less ethnic national property
rights.
The
Pope's globalist agenda then prevails, and the historic position of Protestants
of the Reformation era is abandoned.
There was good reason during the Reformation that the Reformers (Wyckliffe, Huss, Luther, Zwingli, William of Orange, etc.)
were Protestant nationalists, in defense respectively of England, Bohemia,
Germany, Zurich, the Netherlands, etc.
Make
no mistake about it too that this affects more than just ethnic Jews and
Afrikaners. As pointed out in my article on the
immigration crisis in the USA, the USA is on a path where white Americans
are swiftly losing their majority status in the USA, thanks in no small measure
to the machinations of the Romish Church.
(The same is happening in Canada, especially propelled by Roman Catholic
Canadian leaders like the Trudeaus.)
Reparations for non-whites is on the Democratic Party agenda, towards a long term direction of confiscating more and more property
from white Americans. The only practical
Biblical way out of this escalating disaster is a Biblical form of apartheid
for Jews (as represented in the nation of Israel), Afrikaners, white Christian
Americans, white Christian Canadians, etc., in their respective areas of the
world. This is why I seek for
North American white Protestant Christians an equivalent of the Suidlanders of South Africa.
My plea to the elders of the FPCS is that they would
not condemn such efforts and all forms of apartheid.