What Wilson Jeremiah Moses called “messianism,” the idea that White Europeans were called by God for a “manifest destiny” to fulfill a special role “to bring about the kingdom of God on earth,” has been used to define whiteness and in turn to create the myth of a White race.28 Prentiss documented the role of religion in creating the White race myth as an elaborate Western social construction.29 The whiteness myth was central in implying that God gave a superior status to royalty and that nonroyalty were inferiors and naturally defined as subjects of the queen or king.
