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Last night I had the privilege and the honor to pray the invocation and blessing over the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University graduating Class of 2026.

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Evil and Culture
Copyright 2025
Craig Kyle Hemphill

When we consider culture and the model of hate, do we or should we consider evil and culture? Bear in mind that Christ and culture is the intersection or intersections of understandings of religiosity and how we perform or live life in fidelity to God. Or at least one aspect of a guiding ethos of "being" Christian. If then that is the standard of American post-colonial through mid-1970s' religious and political thought, then evil and culture is the antithesis.

What we truly note is an anti-Christ culturalism masquerading as a moral and patriotic compass of light. If we as a certainty believe that there is not a duality with respect to God and an equal anti-God power. That is to say there is not a co-equal evil power that rivals God, then evil and culture is a subtext to a deficiency in American social guide.

What we have then when we observe the current cruelty and evil existing in this moment concerning American society is a spirit of bold disobedience to all things Holy.

Arguably, we exist in the present time in a vulgar hedonist performative agenda masquerading as a mandate toward righteousness.

This then is where we began our examination task of evil and culture by examining the evil of culture. Similar to Neibuhr's Christ and Culture with its points of intersection. We look to examine the evil of Culture to disect its influences on law, religion, politics, American democracy and its debasing/pervassive decay of Western morality.

Subsequently, as we have the evil of culture, we take examinations the evil in culture, the evil as culture, evil beneath or debasing culture and evil masquerading as transcending culture. All these demonstrating evil and culture to ask the question, what of God, humanity, sin and salvation?

CK Hemphill

Antisemitism and racism against blacks Jews are the same side of the coin.

Both blacks AND Jews must unite to LOUDLY confront the issues that both isms present. You CANNOT have silence from either side. Both must express in a unified voice what it means to be a Jew and what it means to be black. Both are religiously persecuted. The two are one in experiencing hatred, physical assaults, racial discrimination and indignity of inhuman treatmet; the Holocost and the Atlantic slave trade. C**n, K**e, watermelon people, jew boy, vermin and ni**er are one in the same racist words. Burning crosses and swatztikas are the same.

The Jew AND the black COLLECTIVELY must explain to their children what it means to be black and what it means to be Jewish. And BOTH must fiercely defend each other. Any racism by a Jew toward a black is the definition of stupidity. Any racism by a black toward a Jew is the archetype of ignorance.

There is one strong thread of united decency that should be the combinef cord between the black and the Jew in unification. Period.

Rev CK Hemphill, Esq.

Always seek the better choice over the purely self choice.