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CRT & Christianity.
It’s not a tool; it’s a worldview. A worldview is like sunglasses that change the shade of everything you see.
A derivative of Marxism, it categorizes the world as oppressed vs. oppressor, but, unlike Marxism, these categories are based on race, not class.
It’s not a tool; it’s a worldview. A worldview is like sunglasses that change the shade of everything you see.
A derivative of Marxism, it categorizes the world as oppressed vs. oppressor, but, unlike Marxism, these categories are based on race, not class.
That means everything—every policy, every personal interaction—is viewed through the lens of this racial oppressor/oppressed dynamic.
CRT asserts that white people are oppressors & black people are oppressed, regardless of an individual’s actual actions or life outcomes.
CRT asserts that white people are oppressors & black people are oppressed, regardless of an individual’s actual actions or life outcomes.
There’s much more to explain there, and I have 5 podcast episodes dedicated to it thanks to the help of people much more knowledgeable in it than me.
I want to focus on how CRT will inevitably affect a person’s understanding of Scripture, the church & the gospel.
I want to focus on how CRT will inevitably affect a person’s understanding of Scripture, the church & the gospel.
If you view the world as non-white oppressed vs white oppressors, that will include how you read the Bible, changing how you read a verse like, Ps 103:6 “The Lord works...justice for all who are oppressed.” or Is. 49:6 “I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh...”
Neither of these verses is referring to racial categories. There are people of all races who God would include in the oppressed category in Ps. 103:5, & Is. 49 is talking about the restoration of Israel. But CRT gives a reader no option but apply its own racial categories.
CRT leads us to not only get Biblical interpretation wrong, but the gospel. We will believe Jesus came to defeat those considered insufficiently anti-racist white people & liberate non-white people, assigning guilt/innocence, damnation/salvation, evil/righteousness based on race.
That view inspires sermons that preach repentance to white congregants but not to non-white congregants. This, obviously, serves an eternal disservice to those who believe certain groups aren’t *as* responsible for sin as others. Won’t cut it on Judgment Day.
Do pastors care about the souls of their black, brown, & white congregants? Then they have to preach the same gospel to all of them.
This said, it’s true:
1) People are different.
- Differences in experience, ethnicity, etc are good & should be honored & listened to.
This said, it’s true:
1) People are different.
- Differences in experience, ethnicity, etc are good & should be honored & listened to.
2) Racism is a sin.
- All hate, including that based on race, is evidence of not loving God (1 Jn 4:20). Where prejudice exists, it needs to be pointed to & defined—clearly—& addressed Biblically. We cannot simply repeat worldly talking points and borrow secular solutions.
- All hate, including that based on race, is evidence of not loving God (1 Jn 4:20). Where prejudice exists, it needs to be pointed to & defined—clearly—& addressed Biblically. We cannot simply repeat worldly talking points and borrow secular solutions.
CRT is seen anywhere race is elevated as the primary identifier, race is used to categorize people as oppressed vs oppressor, interpretations of Scripture are done through the lens of race, all disparities are claimed to be evidence of oppression...
“lived experience” trumps truth, partiality is celebrated, Biblical justice is replaced by “social justice,” which seeks to hold back one group while pushing forward another group in the name “equity.”
It is not a tool to solve racism. It, like its source Marxism, will drive apart & divide. “Move back from it.”
