“Racism is a faith. It is a form of idolatry. In its early modern beginnings, racism was a justificatory device. It did not emerge as a faith. It arose as an ideological justification for the constellations of political and economic power which were expressed in colonialism and slavery. But gradually the idea of the superior race was heightened and deepened in meaning and value so that it pointed beyond the historical structures of relations, in which it emerged, to human existence itself.”

– Dr. George Kelsey (Racism and the Christian Understanding of Man, pg 32.)