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Though things are otherwise interesting, I had an interesting meal the other day that bears sharing. I was at the home of some friends. The individuals will remain nameless, they are still people I care a great deal about. At this meal though, something came to the fore. One of the women there took issue with Trump looking into the state of the Boer farmers.

Why should he care? she said. Well…

South Africa’s black party sings “kill the Boer (Whites), kill the White farmer”. pic.twitter.com/JdPg9Okgnj

— Truthseeker (@Xx17965797N) July 30, 2023

They are living it out too. They won’t back down either.

She then of course mentioned apartheid, which I assume she wants us to care about. Why apartheid and not systematic murder based on race if they’re white? He is also of course looking to get the reaction he got from her to make show exactly that. The Left doesn’t like White people. Though some are trying to take the crown, they are the real racists at the moment.

Her response has also been groomed, no doubt through hundreds of hours of media consumption of formerly news outlets. The whole point of them adopting their approach of emotive grooming is to disengage actual conversation. Like all good brain washing, when successful, pointing it out will make the washed all the more convinced. Emotionalism and emotive pleas are ruling the day on the now fading woke left. To my earlier point, the thought I am sure, never occurred to her that if we care about apartheid, we should care about the murder of White farmers too.

If she meant race, Trump has hired minorities on merit, and African Americans have done better under Trump. I have never seen Trump say anything about race, just national cultures. Not to mention how he even proposed a bill to make Juneteenth a national holiday, and that in a massive spending bill for blacks.

But this isn’t about Trump. That’s the Leftist tactic, one that Trump found a way to benefit from. He’s the lightning rod. We are all meant to define ourselves in relation to Trump.

The whole emotive manipulation tries to get us away from the real question, and that is what has God said. The Bible answers this question, and not the way she did.

7Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Deuteronomy 23:7

Fascinating how this answers both questions. You can see the Ordo Amoris telling us to love those we are closer to. Neither are we given the luxury of holding onto grudges like Apartheid. We can vet who comes into the country by who fits the culture better. We are also to take the nation and the individual into account without punishing them for the past. If a nation or culture is an opposing force to the resident one, there is a prohibition to protect the society at large. You can see this in the chapter as well.

³ “No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever, ⁴ because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. ⁵ But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you. ⁶ You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.
Deuteronomy 23:3-6

Why should you punish a following generation for the sins of their parents when they no longer engage in them? Especially through murder and theft of a land you yourself never owned. Try never letting go of things that somebody or their family did, and watch the fireworks. Let’s see what Jesus does.

¹¹ Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”

¹² “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Revelation 22:11-13

God does judge institutions like cultures and governments, but he also tells us he repays each man for what he does. It does not matter if their grandparents harmed yours. We are not more righteous than God when we engage in identity politics. A Boer farmer who worked against apartheid would not be counted as guilty by God. But today in South Africa, he and his innocent children likely will be.

I was not the man she was talking to, but she appreciated how I pointed out that he is operating as a businessman. Why she didn’t think of it beforehand I cannot tell you (and don’t judge) but she was not treating him as he is. Part of his bluster is the brand, the business world’s “throw out the idea and see what works” and the high games of “The Art of the Deal” (aim high so when you settle you don’t settle low). We all run the risk of treating someone as if they know our standards or are only like those we are used to. That is a risk for everybody, and it has caused this poor woman a lot of frustration. Fortunately, it hasn’t alienated her from the hosts who kept their cool and were polite.

Simply put, morality is more than being nice (a simplistic morality we see too often). don’ t define yourself by a political candidate (for or against) and stay rooted in the word. That includes the definitions of scripture, not only vague notions. Your identity or loyalty for or against any political candidate cannot exceed that of Christ, but nobody she was talking to felt that way. There’s a lesson her on giving grace to someone caught in a bad place, and to root yourself well in the definitions of scripture.