{"id":43496,"date":"2015-10-26T01:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43496"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:37:10","slug":"the-myth-of-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43496","title":{"rendered":"The myth of race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/the-myth-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">The myth of race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Cripplegate<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/author\/jarbitro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Johnson<\/a><\/strong>, Teaching Pastor<br \/>\n<em>Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/the-myth-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prb.org\/images09\/question6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most harmful effects of evolutionary theory is the concept of race. Despite having zero scientific validity to it, the idea that human beings can be categorized into general \u201craces\u201d that are supposedly connected to their biology has wormed its way into our world views. It needs to make a quick exit\u2014stage left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/thabiti-on-the-myth-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thabiti Anwaybwile<\/a> (pastor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anacostiariverchurch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anacostia River Church<\/a> in [Washington] DC) said it this way: \u201cBelieving in race is like believing in unicorns, because neither exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Certainly cultures exist. Certainly ethnicities exist. And certainly racism exists (largely fueled by the whole notion of race to begin with).<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicorn\" target=\"_blank\">unicorns<\/a> do not, and neither does race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/the-myth-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The myth of race The Cripplegate 2015-10-22 Jesse Johnson, Teaching Pastor Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, Virginia One of the most harmful effects of evolutionary theory is the concept of race. Despite having zero scientific validity to it, the idea that human beings can be categorized into general \u201craces\u201d that are supposedly connected to their biology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,820,394],"tags":[21646,21647],"class_list":["post-43496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-socialscience","tag-jesse-johnson","tag-the-cripplegate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43503,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43496\/revisions\/43503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}