Unconsciously, you are because language matters.

4 min readNov 15, 2020

But over time, in the small private treatment rooms, Zacharias would make unwanted sexual advances, the three women each said independently. At first, they tried to ignore it, too embarrassed to call out a famous Christian minister. By their accounts, his inappropriate behavior only escalated.

He was particularly captivated by a female skull from the Caucasus region because of its symmetry, fine composition and perfect formation. He described the skull as, “handsome and becoming.”

Not to everyone. “I pray for him in these final days, but the allegations of abuse and how it was silenced, are true,” updated Rachael Denhollander, the Christian advocate for victims of sex abuse.

In 1795, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German physician and anthropologist, was working on a project to classify human groups. In that era, skulls were used to differentiate between human groups. So Johann began to study and measure skulls from different parts of the world.

As more and more European immigrants settled into the new lands, their previous origins melted away and they became, “American or Canadian.” Calling themselves “Caucasian” was just another way to prove racial identity. Additionally, it was used to justify racial discrimination like slavery or segregation during certain periods in history.

Come to find out, Zacharias had run two health spas near his home in Georgia. To Evangelicals, this would be horrifying since the spas featured yoga and Ayurveda treatments, considered religiously offensive by many.Baughman went public with a YouTube video, admitting the problems with the sources, and asking Christian media to follow up — which seemed to me, at the time, rather improbable.Zacharias masturbated in front of one of the women more than 50 times, according to her recollection. He told her he was burdened by the demands of the ministry, and he needed this “therapy.” He also asked her to have sex with him twice, she said, and requested explicit photos of her.

But staff of the spas told Baughman of Zacharias’ use of the facilities for sex. One employee says: “He was a sexual pervert.” Even more troublingly, women seem to have come in and out from Thailand and India to work at the establishment.

But for thirty years, an Indian guy worked American college campuses and Christian conferences, a revered if odd presence in the land of white Evangelicals. His organization, ‘RZIM’, established itself as a successor to Billy Graham’s organization. With his talk of “rationality” and sexual control, Ravi became the face of Christianity.

In 2016, Ravi had begun a sexting relationship, which bothered the Christian woman so much she resolved to tell her husband. At that, Zacharias threatened to kill himself.

His logic went like this: White people are the most beautiful race and this is the most beautiful skull, therefore the cradle for white civilization is the Caucus mountains!

He viewed white people as being the most beautiful race. This was a typical and accepted belief in that era but Blumenbach wanted a way to prove this assumption. This skull from the Caucasus was his way to prove his racial theories.
This is true even as odd scenes had dribbled out of fake degrees, sexting, ‘online adultery’, and suicide talk? It was weird, distant, and deniable. As Zacharias lay dying last May, he was praising his wife, their marriage and children, and just seemed like another “great man of God” on the fast track to Heaven.

Unconsciously, you are because language matters.

Written by tasfik ddeskit