Kinism is the belief that the God

God

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-ordained social order

Social order

Social order is a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences. It refers to a set of linked social structures, social institutions and social practices which conserve, maintain and enforce "normal" ways of relating and behaving....

 for mankind

Human

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 is "tribal and ethnic" and focus on "loving one's own kind". Kinists advocate the idea that extended families should live together in large groups. It is an offshoot of Christian Reconstructionism

Christian Reconstructionism

Christian Reconstructionism is a religious and theological movement within Evangelical Christianity that calls for Christians to put their faith into action in all areas of life, within the private sphere of life and the public and political sphere as well...

 that originated among anti-immigration

Immigration

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 traditionalists in the Southern United States

Southern United States

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...

. Some Kinists have called for the adoption of laws against miscegenation

Miscegenation

Miscegenation is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation....

, preventing immigration of anyone not white

White people

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, and expelling all Jews and Arab

Arab

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s, as well as only allowing landholding white men age 21 or older to vote.

Criticism

The Southern Poverty Law Center

Southern Poverty Law Center

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 has described kinism as "a new strain of racial separatism that wants America broken up into racial mini-states." Douglas Wilson

Douglas Wilson (theologian)

Douglas James Wilson is a conservative Reformed and evangelical theologian, pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, faculty member at New Saint Andrews College, and prolific author and speaker...

 suggests that it is a "white pride

White pride

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 movement" that goes beyond gratitude for one's culture to "racial animosity" and "mocking and making fun of blacks

African American

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for the race."