Josh Howerton has a woke history that he has spent years trying to put behind him, but when Bo French broke the internet by highlighting the demographic replacement of Texas, many supposedly Republican and conservative voices rushed to condemn him. Josh Howerton weighed in on the discourse to tone police the discourse with his effeminate brand of Christianity.
May regret this, but Christians have got to learn to think in categories, and there are 2 things that are both bad and often get conflated with one another…
1) Racism, defined in actual Biblical terms (racial pride or racial malice) and not defined in the progressive literally-everything-is-a-racism sense, is a sin and is wrong.
// Philippians 2:3, etc forbids conceit (for any reason)
// Titus 3:3, etc forbid “malice” (for any reason)2) Governing leaders allowing mass migration to happen in a way that is bad for the citizens they were elected to prioritize and bad for the nation they were entrusted to protect (especially when it dilutes Christian influence on the country in a way that could tipping-point-doom-spiral that nation away from societal truth and goodness via creation of voting blocs)… is not good.
// In one of the least-P.C. verses in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 28:43-44 describes mass migration leading to the ever-decreasing influence of the people of God in a nation as judgment on that nation:
“The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.”
While there is obviously continuity/discontinuity between the Old and New Covenants, this does show a shape of God’s judgment and there’s no way to read that as anything other than negative.
APPLICATION:
If you look at many responses to this pic, some people are doing #1 and when confronted about it, acting like they’re just doing #2. If you’re calling people “jeets”, don’t pretend you’re having a strictly policy discussion with no malice involved.
Christless “conservatism” would death-spiral into the abyss, just like the already-Christless progressivism has. The center cannot hold.
And often, people are doing #2 and being accused of doing #1.
There’s a difference between a religion and a race, and there’s nothing wrong (actually, in many cases there’s a *lot* wise) with not wanting certain belief systems imported into your country en masse.
And (downstream of the Biblical differentiation in the roles of the individual, family, church, and state) there’s not anything wrong with the citizens of a country opposing the leaders of a country allowing mass migration to happen in a way that hurts their culture, school systems, effects scholarship and job opportunity availability to citizens, etc.
Christians CAN have debates about immigration policy and it not be “racist” at all… and all Christians are commanded to love and pray for the redemption of all people from every tribe, tongue, nation, and language, nailing every type of “malice” in their hearts to the Cross.
Howerton believes that immigration is only wrong when it dilutes or displaces a Christian population in a land. His “categories” are entirely religious, with a splash of ideological and cultural. But he completely ignores the racial question.
In American history, we saw that it was a challenge to import even Germans. Third-world immigration amplifies these challenges, and assimilation is not happening when entire neighborhoods in Texas become Mumbai. Americans have long been concerned about importing different races to the imbalance of the nation. Even the dreadful Hart-Celler Act was sold to the American public based on a lie intended to alleviate these concerns. Yet somehow, after 9/11, Americans frowned on the idea of questioning basic demography, while politicians made replacement a policy.
The race question raises the nation question. If America is overrun with Indians, is it still America? The Christian Nationalist answers this question in the negative. Josh Howerton has not thought this through because his shift away from wokeness is superficial.
In addition to removing the race component to the conversation, Howerton wants to remove the slurs and gamer words based on a nebulous charge of malice. This is reminiscent of the church lecturing Christians to be nicer to gay people, which reaped catastrophic damage on our culture. It was shaming homosexuality that has led to broader pushback. The Bible uses dehumanizing language without malice. It is unforeseeable that America can be saved without harsher rhetoric, the kind that Trump wields on his best days.
Conclusion
What French said resonated because it’s what Texans and citizens of other states are seeing. Whether they’re Indians, Somalians, or Haitians, Americans are discontent with being replaced. Howerton purports to be reasonable, but he is, at best, unwittingly kneecapping Christians because his instincts remain woke in an era that ain’t.
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