
By Davis Carlton
Doug Wilson has posted a couple of articles on Blog & Mablog (or as Pastor Bret cleverly refers to it; Blog and Mehblog). Wilson attempts to develop an alternative in his blog posts addressing national identity in which he asks if identity should be determined by “covenant or color” (see Part 1 and Part 2). Wilson’s covenant vs. color argument depends upon the tired and vapid equation of race with mere superficial color differences. More problematic is that Wilson has posed a false dichotomy. Covenants are central to Christianity, but there is nothing about the nature or existence of covenants that is remotely opposed to ethno-nationalism.