It's the old white tribal religion where the white warrior God and the white women and the white men are the same thing. Now, Gadhafi, give me half a million dollars, and I'll evangelize for you. This creates a dangerous place, an idolatrous place. This white racist ideology is the most pernicious form of sin because it's based on pride. God can deal with a thief, with a liar, with David and Bathsheba, but don't get arrogant, proud, and idolatrous.
Pride is a sin that comes straight from hell itself.
Pride is an ideology and a concept of identity that is against God in its essence. It is atheistic. It is demonic. His notion of Babylon as an appropriate political metaphor to explain the American experience was very powerful for us. As young black Christian intellectuals and activists at Harvard and MIT, we believed we must put some flesh on the Word that we preach.