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Theological Blueprint for White Supremacy and Antisemitism [1]
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Date: 2025-03-16
A Theological Blueprint for White Supremacy and Antisemitism: How the Dutch Reformed Church and the New Apostolic Reformation Shaped Political Thought
This essay is a rant I posted to the following comment:
All that talk about universities ‘supporting antisemitism’ is so much projection: Trump is also highly mobbed-up with New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). NAR is the big scary thing that underpins most of the religious right. For NAR, Israel is the most important country on Earth because Israel is central to NAR’s endtimes beliefs, in which, among other things, unconverted Jews are cast en masse into ‘the lake of fire.’ Speaking of Holocausts. So, Apartheid 2.0 and Holocaust 2.0.
The comment struck a nerve—
The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) are not just religious institutions—they are engines of political power, factories of ideology that have justified oppression, racial supremacy, and authoritarian rule.
Though separated by time and geography, they are bound by a common thread: the use of theology as a weapon, the distortion of faith to serve power, and the relentless drive to dominate.
The DRC did not merely tolerate apartheid—it designed it. It was not a passive bystander but the spiritual architect of Afrikaner nationalism, providing the moral justification for racial segregation and White supremacy in South Africa. It declared Afrikaners to be God’s chosen people and cast Black South Africans as lesser beings—meant to serve, meant to be controlled, meant to be permanently beneath White rule.
And this wasn’t some fringe interpretation—it was official doctrine. A theology crafted to entrench power, silence dissent, and maintain total control.
Now, look at the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR).
It may not wear the exact same mask, but it speaks the same authoritarian language. The NAR’s dominionist agenda insists that Christians—specifically, their brand of White conservative evangelicals—must seize control over government, law, education, and society.
Does that sound familiar?
It should.
Because it is the same blueprint the DRC used to justify White rule in South Africa, and today, it fuels Trump’s Christian nationalism, Musk’s tech authoritarianism, and the broader right-wing crusade to remake the world in their image.
The DRC and the Trump-Musk Administration: A Shared Legacy of Antisemitism and Racial Supremacy
The Dutch Reformed Church’s past is steeped in antisemitism. Before World War II, Afrikaner nationalist factions—including elements within the DRC—were openly sympathetic to Nazi ideology. Many Afrikaner leaders saw Hitler’s movement as aligned with their struggle for racial purity and political dominance.
They opposed Jewish immigration to South Africa, fearing that Jews would disrupt their control of business and politics.
They echoed Nazi rhetoric, portraying Jews as outsiders, as manipulators, as threats to the White Christian order.
They sought to exclude, control, and dominate—just as they did with Black South Africans.
And while apartheid eventually fell, the DRC didn’t die—it mutated. Today, its ideological descendants live on in the global rise of Christian nationalism, deeply embedded in Trump’s movement, Musk’s worldview, and the broader push for authoritarian dominionism.
And now, they are weaponizing antisemitism once again—but this time, they are twisting it to silence dissent, crush activism, and consolidate power.
Antisemitism on Campus: A Manufactured Crisis
This isn’t just history—it’s happening right now.
I was there.
At Duke University, in the fall of 2023, at a pro-Palestinian rally. And what was the message? A ceasefire. The return of hostages.
Nothing extreme. Nothing radical.
A simple plea for peace—voiced by a diverse group of students: Muslims, Christians, Jews, all standing together. They marched peacefully, gathered before the cathedral, picked up literature, and went home.
And yet, where was the media?
Silent.
Nothing dramatic happened. No violence. No chaos. But still, the Trump-Musk machine twisted the narrative. They took legitimate pro-Palestinian activism—a movement that includes Jewish voices—and recast it as antisemitic terrorism.
They have built an entire political campaign on this manufactured crisis, pretending to protect Jewish students while ignoring, amplifying, and enabling real antisemitism.
The Hypocrisy of the Trump-Musk Axis
The real antisemitism? It comes from their circles.
They are not protecting Jews. They are using them.
They exploit antisemitism when it benefits their power, but they have no problem aligning with White nationalist movements that have historically treated Jewish people as the enemy.
At Duke, a new synagogue stands on campus, a powerful symbol of Jewish resilience. But adjacent to it is the Jewish cemetery, a stark reminder of the past—of a time when Christians refused to allow Jews to be buried in "Christian" holy ground.
History recycles.
Today’s exclusion is not about burial sites—it is about who is allowed to speak, who is allowed to resist, and who is allowed to exist in political conversation.
The Trump-Musk administration is not fighting antisemitism—it is censoring opposition, crushing dissent, and manufacturing a crisis to justify repression.
History Is Watching
This is not about Jewish safety.
This is not about stopping antisemitism.
This is about censorship, control, and weaponizing identity to silence resistance.
And we’ve seen this before.
The DRC laid the foundation, the NAR built the scaffolding, and Trump and Musk are now using it to cement their grip on power.
And history is watching.
Because this time, we know exactly how the story ends.
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