Jeff Adams tells us that one of the “benefits of being part of a multicultural church” is that “We are a model of what the church will look like in the future”. This is begging the question. Put another way, whence the assumption that the future (multicultural) state of the church is a desirable state? If Hitler had said in 1935 that building a few trail gas chambers was a virtue because this would have been a foretaste of things to come, I wouldn’t have agreed. Do we take it that Jeff Adams WOULD have agreed?

Jeff Adams also tells us that “We enrich our lives by learning different points of view, different customs, different ways of approaching the circumstances of life.” This much cited alleged advantage for multiculturalism is the central claim in a full length book entitled “Re-thinking Multiculturalism” by Bhiku Parekh. Trouble with this argument is that the vast majority of peoples’ cultural intake comes from books, school, university, TV, radio, etc etc. In contrast, how much do you learn about Chinese history from your local Chinese restaurant: probably nothing.

Moreover, it is precisely the relatively unsuccessful cultures that export large numbers of migrants to Europe and North America. The relatively successful ones dont: their citizens have no motive to migrate. By way of illustration, I have studied unemployment in depth. I’ve read dozens of books on the subject. It is widely agreed in economics that the group of countries with some of the best labour market practices and systems are the Scandinavian countries. But these countries do NOT sent the UK (where I live) migrants in large numbers, because the former are prosperous successful countries. The moral is: if anything, IGNORE immigrant cultures and look at the cultures which DONT send immigrants in large numbers.

As for Jeff Adams’s claim that “We learn how to view people as God sees them, learning to look at people on the inside, not the outside”, this is a debating technique commonly known as “erecting a man of straw”: i.e. attributing a nonsensical argument to your opponents, demolishing it, then claiming you have demolished your opponent’s argument.

What makes Jeff Adams think that the opponents of multiculturalism judge anyone by their “outside”? Where are these people who judge INDIVIDUAL people by their outside: they scarcely exist! The average six year old has worked out that there are intelligent Chinese and people and stupid Chinese people. Therefore (revelation of the century) you cannot judge someone by the fact that they have slitty eyes. Amazing!

In contrast, and as regards forming judgements on entire races, I dont regard Australian Aboriginees as an inferior race because they have darker skin than me and snubby noses. I regard them as inferior because they achieved nothing: no literature, no inventions (and the levels of rape, domestic violence and child abuse in Aboriginal societies are catastrophic, and always have been).

You said………..We learn to prepare ourselves and our children for the coming reality in our country. By 2043 non-Latino whites will be a minority in the Unites States.

well it must be early because I cannot figure out what non-Latino white really means. What caught my eye is the date. I really hope the year 2043 will be during the millennial reign.

And last is there something wrong with me when I go into an all white church, I feel really weird? Like why is every one white ( I’m a white woman ) and why are all the black people going to a seperate church? I do feel more
comfortable in a multicultural church.

Thank you for a great post but could you go back and change the date 2043?