Do people tend to become nicer when they become racial nationalists? My general sense of things is no. Do most Jews become nicer when they become Orthodox? No. By contrast, most people become nicer when they become Christian (or work the 12 Steps). <\/p>\n
Niceness is not my highest value but it is in the top five. When I read about black Christians becoming black nationalists or white Christians becoming white nationalists, it rarely reads like a happy story. By contrast, when these nationalists embrace Christianity (or the 12 Steps), they usually have a happier trajectory.<\/p>\n
A good rejoinder to my muse is that Western society shuns people who become racial nationalists, that’s why they rarely have happy stories. <\/p>\n
New York Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n Rev. Ben Kinchlow, Co-Host of TV\u2019s \u2018The 700 Club,\u2019 Dies at 82 \u201cThat is the place where I saw bona fide miracles take place in the lives of people,\u201d he recalled in an interview.<\/p>\n Those adolescent success stories came to the attention of Mr. Robertson, who invited Mr. Kinchlow to be a guest on his live, three-hour \u201c700 Club\u201d program. Imposing at 6-foot-5 and engaging as a son of the segregated South, Mr. Kinchlow was an immediate hit…<\/p>\n He founded Americans for Israel to promote mutual understanding between Christians and Jews, traveled worldwide as a motivational speaker and contributed commentary to WorldNetDaily, a conservative online publication.<\/p>\n Mr. Kinchlow, a Republican, wrote several books, including a memoir, \u201cPlain Bread\u201d (1985, with Bob Slosser); \u201cYou Don\u2019t Have to if You Don\u2019t Want To: The Marvelous Power to Choose\u201d (1995), and \u201cBlack Yellowdogs: The Most Dangerous Citizen Is Not Armed, but Uninformed\u201d (2008), in which he compared black Democrats to \u201chouse slaves\u201d who vote not by principle but by the party that has bought their loyalty with economic benefits.<\/p>\n Mr. Kinchlow criticized what he called \u201cradical environmentalists\u201d and \u201cmilitant homosexuals\u201d (he said the gay agenda was not about civil liberties but to force Americans \u201cto accept a particular type of bedroom behavior.\u201d Still, he was considered an affable personality and somewhat less rigid than Mr. Robertson.<\/p>\n In one \u201c700 Club\u201d broadcast in 1985, Mr. Robertson was asked whether Christians should participate in government.<\/p>\n \u201cIndividual Christians are the only ones really \u2014 and Jewish people, those who trust the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob \u2014 are the only ones that are qualified to have the reign,\u201d Mr. Robertson replied, \u201cbecause, hopefully, they will be governed by God and submitted to him.\u201d<\/p>\n To which Mr. Kinchlow replied, \u201cObviously you\u2019re not saying that there are no other people qualified to be in government or whatever if they aren\u2019t Christians or Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah,\u201d Mr. Robertson said. \u201cI\u2019m saying that. I just said it.\u201d<\/p>\n …Alienated from religion by conflicts within and between church denominations, he rejected a scholarship to a seminary, served 13 years in the Air Force and became a self-described reprobate who earned the nickname \u201cPagan\u201d until a young minister friend reacquainted him with Christianity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I also notice that blacks who join the Armed Forces or big corporations often have happy stories. Jews and Asians, by contrast, are often more suited for entrepreneurship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do people tend to become nicer when they become racial nationalists? My general sense of things is no. Do most Jews become nicer when they become Orthodox? No. By contrast, most people become nicer when they become Christian (or work … Continue reading
\nBy his own account, Mr. Kinchlow was a black nationalist firebrand and a philanderer before he became a born-again Christian in his mid-30s, in the early 1970s. He went on to found a youth ministry and a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Killeen, Tex., about 75 miles north of Austin.<\/p>\n