As a man who has complete disregard for politically correct culture, I tend to shock a lot of people with my views, especially in Christian circles. But as I see it, anyone who holds a Christian world view has absolutely no use for political correctness. The reason for this is that the major basis for political correctness is that all people groups, genders, religions, cultures, etc, are equal. That may seem all well and good if you spend zero time thinking about it. But as I Christian I certainly don't think that all religions and cultures are equal. Cultures of people who serve God are better. Jesus said that no one comes to the Father but by him, and so I can conclude that only 1 very narrow religion is good, and the rest are evil.
Most Christians are not shocked by any of this. But then when it gets to equality of race and gender, I'm also totally open to inequalities. For example, I believe that men have a greater natural aptitude for math. Whats more, I believe that Asians have a better natural aptitude for math, and higher education in general. Black and Hispanic students on the other hand seem to have less natural born ability to preform well in school. And you can say that its because of nurture and culture all you want, but really that goes against what most people observe, and seems to come from the fact that people are not comfortable with the conclusions that best fit the observations.
We see this same thing in all sorts of animals. Different breads of dogs have different intelligence, and although I have not researched it, I'd be shocked if the same was not true for cow, pigs, goats, cats, and basically every other domesticated and wild animal for which there is variety with the ability to cross breed. So should the default conclusion be that of all biological beings humans are completely unique in this way?
I would say that there are definitely some things that set men apart form the animals, but being exactly the same across all races according to all metrics is not one of them. Different races also have all manner of physical differences including heath problems, and greater physical aptitudes. Very few people would argue against that because its just too obvious. So why should something like intelligence by any different?
The reason that these thought don't bother me is because as a Christian I have a view on innate human value that is not affected by any of this stuff. The atheist/humanist views the worth of a person by the ability to produce, which certainly is tied to such things as intelligence. But as a Christian I view that as a perverse and wrong measurement of value. The only real value a person can have comes from their relationship with God. And God does not find people more or less valuable because of their intelligence. It's not like He keeps us around because we're always giving Him such good ideas. Instead, I believe that all people are valuable because God said that He treasures all of them. And because of this I can honestly evaluate the world without getting into eugenics or Nazism. So I have no use for political correctness.
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