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So define ethnicity for us, October 25th, 2023, Dear Gavin.

So we have all these different tribes all over the world doing their thing.

Where does all the animosity between them come from?

And what are these distinct ethnicities exactly between which the animosities arise?

How shall we define the ethnoi, in other words?

Let me address the animosity first.

There are many proximate causes, but the ultimate one appears to have been a divine design

feature.

As I argued in my last letter, the Lord was the one who scattered all the nations into

their various ethnic enclaves by means of confusing their languages.

The reason he did this was to disrupt their ability to work together.

The opposite of being able to work together is being at odds with one another, and in

a fallen world, conflict arises naturally from that.

Even the fallen as a man, if there was going to be unity, that unity was going to be

deployed in the service of wickedness.

And so God put a halt to that.

Quote, and the Lord said, behold, the people is one, and they have all one language, and

this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined

to do.

Genesis 116.

The Good Lord did not want us all to get along if getting a long meant organized in

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