One would think that some cursory familiarity with an opponent’s position would be a prerequisite to condemning it as “heresy,” an actionable offense under most denominational by-laws and standards. Pastor Brian Schwertley seems neither to have read the extant material on Kinism, as it has been promulgated at this and other prominent websites, nor to have interacted with any leading Kinists, in order to determine whether, indeed, he’s got it figured aright. Straw man arguments are far more appealing, as they do not require the effort of making a cogent case against an actual, extant position. Neither has “pastor” Schwertley, as Matthew 18 requires, contacted any prominent Kinist that I am aware of in an attempt to have his questions answered, along with those of other “concerned” elders, nor has he presented a valid scriptural case that Christian ethno-nationalism and agrarianism are heretical positions. His attacks against the “sin” of racism do not come near addressing the case made by Kinism for the biblical supportability of ethno-nationalism as a valid system of human polity. Further, Schwertley reduces Kinism to a single dimension, when, in fact, it is an entire worldview, addressing issues in the fields of sociology, economics, psychology, and church doctrine. His arrant reductionism amount merely to misrepresentation. Preaching to the choir about that ol’ debbil “racism” is certainly a blast when you have no opponent in the debate. It is our hope at the Kinist Institute that Mr. Schwertley continues to bring attention to our long-overdue and much-belated efforts to reverse the marginalization of whites, for the very reason of their whiteness, an active and present form of racism that the good pastor seems to care little about. We have our doubts whether the good minister has the intellectual or biblical tools to effectively refute the Kinist apologetic, and therefore, to remain relevant to his curious congregation, must resort to addressing beliefs that Kinists don’t hold -such as race factors that affect soteriology, or our so-called “hatred” for those of another color (as though the complex and multi-dimensional phenomena of race and ethnicity reduce to pigmentation of the epithelial tissues).
As a result of this, Mr. Schwertley is guilty of bearing false witness, and should be called to account by his congregation and his Presbytery. We pray imprecatory prayers against him that this end may come to pass.
