The Measure of Human Worth

by Rebecca Bynum (May 2012)

We don’t know, because we don’t know where or when the races originated and it is impossible to tell from the fossil record. But the assumption that black African equals “primitive man” is just that – a wholly unsubstantiated and, I must say, rather disturbing assumption. But observe any recently produced television program depicting primitive man today and he will invariably be represented by black Africans playing the part of the “hunter-gatherer.”

human habitation in Britain dating back 900,000 years and in Spain dating back at least a million years, yet this reconstruction was touted in the press as “The First European” looking like he just stepped out of Africa yesterday.

God is no respecter of persons. There is nothing we can do to impress the source of all creation, but we can grow closer to God and in this, the black race seems to excel in innate capacity for spiritual growth. Of course, this is my own personal impression. No one sees the world as God sees it and that is why we cannot measure it properly. We must judge men by their actions alone, but God judges men by their inmost hearts' intent.

father, the source and center of reality. Perhaps this worldview is quaint and old-fashioned, but without it, society degenerates into opposing factions, each insisting on its own set of rights and the duty we owe each other as brothers and sisters is quickly forgotten as the Darwinian struggle reasserts itself. The inevitable result of radical secularization and Islamization will be war, destruction and death on an unimaginable scale as each opposing group makes its claim on the measure of human worth.

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