Originally Posted by goldenoldie
Originally Posted by PerpetualLearner
"ethnocentrism [(eth-noh- sen -triz-uhm)]

The belief that one's own culture is superior to all others and is the standard by which all other cultures should be measured.

Note : Early social scientists in the nineteenth century operated from an ethnocentric point of view. So-called primitive tribes, for example, were studied by anthropologists to illustrate how human civilization had progressed from “savage” customs toward the accomplishments of Western industrial society."

I believe a nation has every right to regulate their immigration laws in order to preserve their culture, especially if the culture had a basically Christian or biblical foundation. The professor you referenced is at an SBC seminary that was founded by James P. Boyce, a strong Calvinist, 'supra' and he also owned slaves. I recently learned that George Whitefield also owned slaves. I follow the belief system on this as Robert L. Dabney does in his book "A Defense of Virginia and the South" , 1867. My Chinese friend has been disgusted by how media and politicians have reacted to Charlottesville as it is compared to their past reaction to BLM, Black Panthers in Philly threatening voters, Ferguson, etc. One last thought, I am concerned how the young man who drove into the protestors killing a woman has already been convicted in the media when in the mayhem it is hard to know this soon just what exactly did happen and that's why we have courts and a trial. Was he surrounded by violent, vicious people from whom he was desperate to escape? Now, I admit, I am very angry over how this awful tragedy is being reported, so I am not going to continue on this thread or my blood pressure will go sky high. frown

Hi Ned,

Thank you for speaking your mind. It is a breath of fresh air that I've been waiting for for a long time.

I am a newly naturalized Oriental who thinks that Western civilization (and culture) is superior to all others and is the standard by which all other cultures should be measured—including my native culture, and that the form of US Constitutional government is head and shoulders above all others. Of course, I do not include cultural incidentals (or, as Aristotle called them, accidents) such as cuisine, literature, film, etc., which are subjective.

So what does that make me? Honestly, I don't care for an identity label except for the honor of being Christ's.

Aside: Dabney wrote the best analysis of property tax that I've ever read. And I'm also supra.

I was not going to answer to any replies here because it is a sensitive topic with me, including myself. But, since there seemed to be genuine interest on this topic, I'll post some reference material you can read online. The conservative Lutherans of the 19th century did not consider slavery in itself as sin. So, the following articles should be read to see my quotes in context.

19th Century Lutheran Scholar -
"Slavery, Humanism & the Bible" by C.F.W. Walther (1811-1887) First President of the LCMS:
"Is therefore slavery a sin which must be unconditionally opposed, or should Christians concentrate on doing away with the connected sinfulness, so that the relationship between slave and master is according to God’s will and order, according to the laws of justice, fairness, and love. We therefore hold that abolitionism, which deems slavery a sin and therefore considers every slave holder a criminal and strives for its eradication, is the result of unbelief in its development of nationalism, deistic philanthropy, pantheism, materialism, and atheism. It is a brother of modern socialism, Jacobinism and communism."

http://www.lutherquest.org/walther/articles/cfw00002.htm

19th Century Presbyterian Scholar -
"A Defense of Virginia and the South", by Professr Robert L. Dabney (1820-1898) American Christian theologian, Southern Presbyterian pastor, Confederate States Army chaplain - available online:

"One passage of the New Testament remains to be noticed. It is that which commands the exclusion of Abolitionist teachers from church communion, 1 Tim. vi.3-5. St. Paul had just enjoined on this young minister the giving of proper moral instruction to servants. The pulpit was to teach them the duty of subordination to masters, as to rightful authority; and if those masters were also Christians, then the obligation was only the stronger. See v.1,2. The apostle then proceeds, v. 3, 'If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,' (the opposite teaching of abolitionism contradicts Christ's own word,) 'he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.'" pages 185, 186

https://archive.org/details/defenceofvirgini00dabn

19th Century Southern Baptist Scholar -
James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888), founder of the first SBC seminary and author of Abstract of Systematic Theology

"I believe I see in all this the end of slavery. I believe we are cutting its throat, curtailing its domain. And I have been, and am, an ultra pro-slavery man. Yet I bow to what God will do. I feel that our sins as to this institution have cursed us, – that the Negroes have not been cared for in their marital and religious relations as they should be; and I fear God is going to sweep it away, after having left it thus long to show us how great we might be, were we to act as we ought in this matter."

http://www.podles.org/dialogue/james-petigru-boyce-3302.htm

Virginia was the first civil government to ban the slave trade, 1778 and look forward to the end of slavery:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-02-02-0019

For a Bible based Christian, the Battle Hymn of the Republic is rank heresy, and it was the theology of the north:

http://www.hcsedu.com/ARTICLES/The_Anti-Christian_Battle_Hymn/

Ned