For the last several weeks, far-right Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge has been preaching on the Curse of Ham, a controversial theological theory long used to justify slavery and racism.
Originating in Genesis 9, the theory posits that black people were perpetually cursed by God to serve and be ruled by white people because Ham, one of the sons of Noah, looked upon his father when he was passed out drunk and naked in his tent.
Partridge claimed that "the African peoples ... and some of the people from India" are the modern-day descendants of Ham and that they have been assigned by God to be ruled over and dependent upon whites, Europeans, Asians, Jews, and Arabs, who are allegedly the descendants of Ham's brothers, Shem and Japheth.
Given that "God has sovereignly assigned different stations and trajectories to different peoples for his glory," Partridge declared that it is only proper for Africa to recolonized by "white Christians."
"The Japhethites have been blessed to be enlarged in both territory and Christian regeneration," Partridge preached. "The Hamites have been assigned to a civilizational station of subordination and dependence. And the answer to this paradigm is not endless foreign money. That's not the answer to this problem. The answer is to return to European Christian colonization of African nations."
"I believe that's truly the answer," he continued. "It's the only thing that has historically worked; that has shown fruit. I'm not talking about overtaking Africa. I'm not talking about enslaving Africans. I'm not talking about exploiting Africans. But I'm talking about establishing order—godly leadership—and carrying the gospel to their lands. In fact, the only times that African nations have seen significant and sustained civilizational improvement—and I'm talking about infant mortality rates going down, I'm talking murder going down, I'm talking disease going down, tribal wars ceasing—the only time Africa has ever seen that happen and been sustained is when they have come under Japhethite supervision."
"White Christians turned a broken third-world territory into a thriving first-world Christian nation in less than a century," Partridge proclaimed. "You have a continent that has been struggling for literally millennia, and then you bring in a handful of European Christians, and they turn that, in 100 years, into a first-world nation like that."
Partridge is closely aligned with virulently antisemitic, deeply misogynistic, manifestly racist, theocratic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon and hosts a weekly program on Webbon's NXR network.