In "Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary", it defines "discriminate" as follows:

"To distinguish between, la: to mark or perceive to the distinguishing or peculiar features of b: DISTINGUISH, DIFFERENTIATE 2: to distinguish by discerning or exposing differences; esp: to distinguish (one like object) from another - vi la: to make a distinction 2: to make a difference in treatment or favor on a bias other than individual merit."

"1: the act of discriminating: DIFFERENTIATION 2: the quality or power of finely distinguishing 3: the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually syn see DISCERNMENT-"

Part of the campaign of brainwashing to which the American public is being subjected is huge and well-financed effort to make us believe that all discrimination is bad. Those of us whose memory reaches back 40 years or more will recall that the ability to discriminate between things of different value or utility was then recognized as a most essential part of intelligence. Those too dull to see differences where they exist were considered stupid. How does it happen that the subsidized press and radio and television commentators now so bitterly denounce all who can discriminate? They even try to make us believe that discrimination is unChristian! Since all of the devil's doctrines are now being preached under the false pretense of "Christianity", let us examine the only source from which we can determine God's position on the subject of discrimination.

From beginning to end, the Bible is a book of discrimination --discrimination by God Himself, and discrimination in Genesis 4:3-5, where we read, "And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Yahweh. And Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Yahweh had respect unto Abel and to his offering; but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect." What is this?

But this is only the beginning: In Genesis 5:3-4, it describes Adam's family; yet it mentions by name one of his children, Seth, and barely notices the existence of the others. Discrimination? Yes, Indeed! Right on down through verse 31, this chapter notes the existence of each succeeding generation, yet approves only one in each generation by giving his name. This brings us to Noah; and in Genesis 6:17-18, we find that God discriminated in favor of Noah and his family and against all the other people living in that land. God saw a difference between them? Of course, but today, we are told that we must pretend that there is no difference between the races, even when we clearly know that this pretense is false.

Follow on down through Genesis, and we find that God discriminated in favor of one against others in every generation down to Abraham. Among Abraham's children, God discriminated in favor of Isaac and against Ishmael; and among Isaac's children, God again favored Jacob over Esau, making Jacob the father of God's people and changing his name to ISRAEL, while Esau and his descendants were cursed with God's indignation forever. Likewise, God favored Joseph over all his eleven brothers; and again, God discriminated in favor of the Israelites and against the Egyptians. "How awful!" say our modern liberals: "Why, this is racism!" Yes, frankly, it is: and it is God's own choice, at that. God has certainly lost the Minority Group vote; but I am grateful to Him for setting an example which we can follow.

But some people have been misled by their churches into the belief that the Old Testament is only a record of God's mistakes and failures; and that He had to abandon all this and make a new start in the New Testament, which changed everything. No greater FALSEHOOD was ever taught! God was right the first time, and all the time; the Old Testament and the New Testament are perfectly consistent: there is as much Christianity in the Old Testament as in the New; and the New Testament is as much an Israel (not "Jew") book as was the Old.

No doubt, many of you have heard many preachers say that discrimination is unChristian. Let's look into this. Who is the supreme authority on what is Christian? It cannot be anyone except Jesus Christ, Himself: no-one can tell me that Jesus Christ was unChristian.

Fortunately, Jesus Christ never used any of the weasel-worded evasions which are considered polite, today: He always fearlessly spoke the exact truth, in words too plain to be mistaken. All the Gospels record that, among the Jews, Jesus Christ spoke His teachings in parables which they could not understand; later, He explained these parables to His disciples in private. At least three of the Gospels record that Jesus explained to His disciples why He took such pains to keep the Jews from understanding Him: In Mark 4:11-21, we read "And He said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God: but unto them (Jews) that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing, they may see, and not perceive; and hearing, they may hear and not understand: Lest at any time they should be converted and their sins should be forgiven them." Now that is real discrimination! How could you make it any stronger?

But that is not all. Both Matthew 15:22-28 and Mark 7:25-30 record that, when a Canaanite woman asked Jesus Christ to drive the demon out of her daughter, He replied that it was not proper to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. Not until she acknowledged that the children of God, the truth Israelites, must first receive His gifts, and through them that Kingdom of God would be brought to the other races, not until then did He consent to heal her daughter. Discrimination? Yes, indeed! RACISM? Certainly! But who dares to call Jesus Christ unChristian? Yes, I think that some of the "liberal" and "modernist" preachers will actually say this!

But this discrimination becomes even stronger. In Matthew 7:6, Jesus Christ warns all His followers, "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." Certainly everyone knows that Jesus Christ was not so foolish as to think that His disciples were going into the barnyard and start preaching to the four-legged animals there. When He spoke of "dogs" and "swine", He was speaking of two-legged varieties. Discrimination between races? Certainly! But we haven't had sense enough to believe Him and obey Him. We have given that which is holy --- our Christian religion --- unto the dogs in Africa and Asia; and today, those missionaries who did not escape in time have been eaten in Africa or are slowly dying in Red Chinese prisons. The precious pearls which God gave to us --- the inventive skill He placed in our minds, the high civilization which enables us to produce great abundance of every useful produce --- these we have cast before the swine of the earth, and they now trample under their feet the peaceful prosperity we tried to give them, and use our science, our machines, even the surplus food we ship to them, as weapons with which to destroy us.

Yes, I know how the minority groups and the mongrelizers are raging against what I am saying: but it is time that God's truth be told before it is too late. Jesus Christ warned us to discriminate between races, just as He discriminated. In His last talk with His disciples, in the 14th through the 17th chapters of John, Jesus Christ said that He would send to them the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, whom the nations of the world order (kosmos) cannot receive because they do not see Him nor know Him. And Jesus said that he prayed only for those who were His, and NOT for the world system.

Jesus Christ knew the folly and falsehood of pretending that all people, all races, are alike or equal. He knew that every sacrifice of truth on the polluted altar of expediency and politics brings its terrible penalty in national and racial degradation which only their destruction has ever succeeded in cleansing. All history is a vast junkyard of the wreckage of empires which ignored this lesson --- and in consequence thereof, perished. Several times in our past history, we were on this path to destruction --- and were only saved by the direct intervention of God. Today, we have allowed corrupt leaders to take us so far into this shadow of death that, again, only the promised intervention of God can now save us! We have His promise to do so, and we can always rely upon Him to keep His Word.

But it is no credit to us that we have disobeyed Him to this extent. While yet we can, let us turn back to the word of God; DISCRIMINATE between that which is good for us and that which is deadly, that which is our own and that which is alien to ourselves and to our God.
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As a second witness with more insights, Here Pastor Peters' taped sermon on the subject:

DISCRIMINATION: Is it good or bad, sin or not sin? First we must know what is up and what is down. Then we must honestly examine the Bible to see if God discriminates and commands discrimination. This is an eye-opening, mind stimulating message on a much abused subject.

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On a related subject, get "A Double-Minded People" - How "doublethink" renders people docile, inactive and submissive. This booklet will expose you to the dialectics played on the public mind to render them incapable of discrimination (critical thinking) and thus unable to reason. It is also available from Scriptures for America for $1.00 offering.
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