ELI STEELE: The terror of being called racist is crushing free speech in America

Biblical Context

The article materially concerns themes Scripture addresses: racial partiality, the equal dignity of human beings, oppression and discrimination, moral guilt, repentance, and the duty to reject hatred and violence. Genesis 1:26-27 grounds human dignity in humanity’s creation in God’s image, supporting the article’s concern with the dehumanization of Black people and Jews, while also challenging any framework that assigns moral worth or guilt primarily by racial category. James 2:1-9 directly condemns showing partiality based on outward status and therefore supports scrutiny of both racial discrimination and systems that judge people by group identity. Scripture also distinguishes genuine moral guilt from merely inherited or collective accusation: Deuteronomy 24:16 emphasizes individual accountability, while 1 John 1:9 presents confession and forgiveness as a biblical response to actual sin. These passages support the article’s subject matter, but they do not by themselves validate all of its political conclusions about diversity programs, “White guilt,” Palestinian advocacy, or the interpretation of October 7. No specific biblical prophecy is established by the reported facts. The article’s references to Israel, Hamas, Jews, and October 7 create a contemporary religious and geopolitical context, but the text does not report a distinctive development that corresponds clearly to a particular prophetic passage.