Don posts: “Luke: If it comes down to Ben Carson for the Republicans and Hillary Clinton for the Democrats, who will get your vote? Do you agree with Donald Trump that Carson is unfit to be President because of his Adventist religion? Do you agree with Carson that a Moslem should not be elected President of the United States?”
Luke: I love Ben Carson, and would vote for him over any Democrat. I don’t agree that Carson is disqualified by his Adventism, but I do love the discussion about that! I love a good religious fight. I agree with Ben Carson that no Muslim should be elected president in the US. I agree with Carson that if European Jews had guns, there would not have been a Holocaust. I agree with Carson about almost everything except immigration (I want less, he wants more). Ben Carson is a beautiful man. The more America gets to know him, the better. What a great face for Adventism and for America and for blacks. I love it that Carson and Trump bring up things you’re not supposed to talk about publicly. They’re expanding the Overton Window.
Growing up as a Seventh-Day Adventist, I don’t recall ever having a conversation about race (or about the Jews). Not at home, not at church, not with friends. Adventists are about as color-blind as humanly possible.
Normal opinions in the 1950s are now racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ageist, lookist, and Islamophic. Prior to the 20th Century, there was no conception of any such sin as “racism” or “sexism” or “homophobia” etc.
