- Monogenesis -- every race derives from Adam and Eve.
- Polygenesis -- only the White race descends from Adam and Eve.
- Evolutionary biology.
Evolutionary biology is dismissed out of hand as "emphatically the theory of infidels, skeptics, and atheists -- the pet philosophy of all the fools who say in their hearts, there is no God".
Monogenesis is a theory that relies on these hidden assumptions:
- Race is defined based on differences in body characteristics as well as inherent differences in fixed mental and moral traits.
- There is a natural preference to marry within one's own race and it is not merely a social habit. This instinct is God-given, natural law, wise, morally right, and unchangeable.
- Mixing races through intermarriage produces inferior outcomes: morally confused, physically weakened, or socially unstable offspring. This results in the overall lowering of the quality and dignity of humankind.
To be sure, there is no scientific basis for these assumptions. They are mere speculations of KKK thought leaders, expressing their preferred world view. All of their assumptions are presumed, not demonstrated to be true.
Monogenesis, they say, would mean God made humans with built-in contradictions. On the one hand, if God created humanity as one, which would promote intermarriage leading to degradation of humankind, and simultaneously built in a preference to marry within one's own race, God would be contradicting themself. On the other hand, if humankind is one family coming from one set of parents in Adam and Eve, then God has destined humanity to failure through continual decline via intermarriage. Based upon these assumptions, they reject monogenesis as a theory because it would make God seem incompetent; it therefore cannot be true, they say, that everyone descended from Adam and Eve.
KKK thought leaders rely then upon the theory of polygenesis -- that non-Whites are not descended from Adam and Eve but are instead inferior beings created by God before Adam and Eve. This is how, they say, after Cain killed Abel and was ostracized, he was able to meet other people in the land of Nod -- and the people of Nod, according to this theory, are an inferior race and are not part of the descendants of Adam.
In accord with the polygenetic theory, the KKK see the United States as having a God-given mission to regenerate the White race. The Klan claim to represent a holy crusade, and even to be "another form of God", and gave Paul's Letter to the Romans, Chapter 12, prominence as the Law of Life, summing up the sacred principles they seek to promote.
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