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"Круто было бы вплетать мысли из мировой истории борьбы за равноправие"

Кстати, я тут наконец вдруг доехал, а чего, собственно, ЮАР в своё время так упиралась рогом в апартеид. И от глубинной причины малость даже охуел.

Covenant and Chosen People: Drawing from Calvin's emphasis on God's covenants (as with the Israelites), Afrikaners saw themselves as a covenanted nation elected by God for a specific purpose. Non-whites, particularly Black Africans, were viewed as outside this covenant—often as "unconvertible heathens"—requiring permanent separation to preserve the purity of the white Christian nation.
Apartheid as Moral and Spiritual Good: By the 1930s–1940s, theologians such as Gustav Gerdener framed apartheid as a positive Christian ethic: parallel development of races in their "own areas" would allow each to fulfill its divine calling, with whites guiding (but not exploiting) others. This was presented as superior to integration or capitalism's disruptions of tribal life, and it aligned with Calvinist ideals of ordered society under God's law. The DRC's 1974 report on "Race, People, and Nation" further codified this, regulating interracial relations to align with biblical principles.

Theologians like J.D. du Toit (Totius) and H.G. Stoker reframed predestination not just for personal salvation but for volke (nations or peoples), citing Acts 17:26 ("From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands") to argue that God had sovereignly ordained distinct racial groups with fixed boundaries and roles. Afrikaners, as a "chosen people" akin to biblical Israel, were elect for dominion and cultural preservation, while non-whites—often deemed "heathens" or reprobate—were destined for parallel but subordinate development in Bantustans. This made interracial equality not just unwise but a rebellion against God's immutable decree, akin to defying predestination itself.

"In compatibilist terms (as discussed previously), determinism preserves human responsibility by aligning choices with one's God-shaped nature. However, when applied ideologically, it inverted this: If apartheid was God's ordained path—evidenced by Afrikaner "miracles" like the Battle of Blood River (1838)—then moral qualms were dismissed as sinful doubt or Satanic temptation. This created a feedback loop where ethical reflection was preempted; questioning the system equated to questioning God's sovereignty, fostering what scholars call "ideological blindness." For instance, the DRC's 1974 report Race, People, and Nation affirmed segregation as biblically mandated despite acknowledging practical harms, because divine determinism trumped consequentialist critique.

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