Deeply medieval religious beliefs still permeate American society, where even today abortion doctors are murdered by religious extremists. This influence has now surfaced in Japanese media, with a Tokyo University–trained scholar claiming that Darwin’s theory of evolution is wrong and that the Book of Genesis is more accurate. This essay exposes the racial and ideological implications embedded in biblical creationism.

This is a continuation of the previous chapter.

From the image people generally have of America, one would never imagine that such medieval religious views are so deeply rooted in American society.
Yet the repeated killings of abortion doctors by so-called pro-life extremists—who insist that abortion violates God’s teachings—are one clear expression of this reality.

Just when I had been thinking how difficult things must be in the United States as well, I saw an unbelievable program the other day on TV Kanagawa.

A woman introduced as Dr. Kazuko Andō, who had graduated from the University of Tokyo and also studied in the United States, appeared on the program and asserted that Darwin’s theory of evolution is full of errors, and that the account in the opening chapter of the Old Testament, Genesis, is more reasonable.

In other words, she claimed that all things were created by a Creator, that monkeys were created as monkeys, and that on the sixth day God created human beings in His own image—and that this story is more valid than Darwin’s theory.

But does she know how humanity is actually depicted in Genesis?

There appear only Shem, the ancestor of the Arabs and Jews; Ham, the ancestor of the Egyptians; and Japheth, the ancestor of the white race.

Neither Black people nor Asian Mongoloids appear.

It is true that there is a theory that one of the Three Wise Men from the East was Black, but in any case, Mongoloids do not appear.

God did not create Mexicans or Japanese.

That is why they believed that Black people and Native Americans were not human beings and slaughtered them without hesitation.

At the very least, Montesquieu openly wrote in The Spirit of the Laws that “Black people are not human.”

This column continues.