Symptoms and Causes

The Confederate Flag

In their typical fashion, leftists are now demanding the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House building after Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, shot nine people to death last week in a black church located in Charleston.

Certainly, the Confederate flag is offensive to many people, and it's long been associated as a symbol of the old Jim Crow south. But I seriously doubt that the rebel flag had anything to do with Roof's racist beliefs and his murderous actions. Rather, Roof used that flag to flaunt his rebellion against blacks, the human race and God.

I'm not defending the rebel flag. If the people of South Carolina want it removed from their State House, then it should be gone. However, removing the flag isn't going to stop evil people such as Roof from committing heinous crimes against innocent people. 

The only way to prevent more Dylann Roofs from destroying human life is to raise children properly in biblical values so that they'll recognize that all human beings regardless of color, are created in the image of God and aren't the end product of millions of years of random evolutionary forces. Roof thought himself and his race superior to blacks, and his perverted mind convinced him that blacks had to be eliminated from the earth.

Roof's beliefs, albeit evil, aren't unique to white supremacists. Those beliefs are also found in Islam that teaches that Jews are the offspring of apes and pigs and therefore must be eliminated from the world. Adolf Hitler believed the Jews to be a corrupt race that had to be eliminated from the earth. And Elijah Muhammad, one of the founders of the Nation of Islam, taught that whites are the spawn of Satan and they have to be eliminated from the planet.

And remember a woman named Margaret Sanger? She founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 that later became known as Planned Parenthood. Sanger was a virulent racist who believed that blacks were an inferior race that had to be eliminated from the world. 

Here's what Sanger wrote in Woman, Morality and Birth Control that was published in 1922: We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities.  The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. 

And in 1932, she revealed one of her true motives for birth control: Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/11/10-eye-opening-quotes-from-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/

The Bible reveals that the root cause of all evil in the world is the sinful nature that's inherent in all human beings from the time of birth. The symptoms of evil manifest in violent crime, poverty, greed, financial corruption, laziness, sexual immorality and of course racism. 

Leftists reject the biblical worldview by claiming that human beings are born basically good and are subsequently corrupted by such things as poverty, inequality, racism and social injustice. If that's true then where did poverty, inequality, racism and social injustice come from? Space aliens? Rather those evils come from morally-depraved, sinful human beings. 

If all human beings are born "basically good" then such maladies as poverty, inequality, racism and social injustice shouldn't exist. But they do. That's the root cause of evil in the world rather than such things as the existence of the Confederate flag. 

Jesus Christ explained that to His disciples one day during His ministry in ancient Israel. When some of His disciples were soundly condemned by the Pharisees for violating a rabbinical custom by not washing their hands before they ate, Christ said this: "Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart comes evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them." (Matthew 15:17-20)

Confederate flags don't create racists--evil does. And evil begins in the human heart and not at the top of a flagpole.