God Dislikes Uniformity

The South African politician Nic Diederichs—a prominent leader during the apartheid era—once made a rather provocative observation: God, he said, dislikes deadly uniformity. I hate to admit that I like that comment, since Diederichs was a perverse thinker who helped to create the racist ideology in South Africa. Defending the “separate development” of the races, he argued that God wills the existence of many different races; that is why we must not allow interracial mingling.

What God has put asunder, let no one try to…