This is why the sin of racism is so serious. The system of race, at its core, is a revaluation of human worth. Instead of ordering human value around the doctrine of the imago Dei, it ascribes value based on proximity to whiteness. Dr. Reggie Williams, a professor at McCormick Seminary, describes this historical act of playing God by ascribing value to the creation of the “white normative human being.” He says that throughout American history the white male has been held up as the ideal human that everyone else is measured against. “It is what historically allowed us to colonize Native people,
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