The Bible — Politically Incorrect

As much as it may surprise many of the Christians reading this, the Old Testament also supports wholeheartedly the institution of slavery. And again it is made clear that Israelites may forever engage in slavery of other peoples, but they are forbidden to enslave their own.

     As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.
     You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.
     You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession forever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness. (Leviticus 25:44-46)¹

In regard to inter-racial marriage there are unmistakable passages where God commanded, "You shall not make marriages with them."

     And When the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;
     Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. . . .(Deuteronomy 7:2-6)²

The Bible goes on to say to Israelites who marry non-Israelites, "so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you." (Deuteronomy 7:4)³

Elsewhere the Old Testament decries the mixing of the "holy seed of Israel." Jewish priests complain that "the people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations…(Ezra 9:1)⁴ For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons; so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands." (Ezra 9:2)⁵ Ezra goes on to list 107 men who renounced their foreign wives and their children by them as part of their obedience to God.

I also found that genealogies were used as proofs of untainted bloodlines. Racially impure genealogies were used to deny the priesthood to some who returned from Babylonian captivity. Every Sunday School child learns that one of the Old Testament proofs of the divinity of Jesus is his unbroken genealogy. I discovered that genocide and forbidding mixed marriages were not the only means used in biblical times to protect the bloodline of the Israelites. The Bible also clearly advocates separation or segregation.

     . . . I am the Lord your God which have separated you from other people. (Leviticus 20:24)⁶
     . . . Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. (Nehemiah 13:3)⁷

If the new egalitarian version of Christianity is right and racial separation is sinful, then by their logic God would have to be the first one condemned, for He is the one who created the racial differences of mankind. Whether one believes that God used a complex process of lengthy evolution or a simple act of immediate creation to make us, it is obvious that the different races exist and are geographically separated. If racial integrity is against the laws of God, why did he establish the races, geographically separate them, and give them distinct characteristics and qualities? Is God supposed to have made some big mistake that man in his conceit is now to rectify through integration and racial mixing?