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It's interesting some of same people yelling 'iTs cRt aAhHhH!' have no problem recognizing science as a 'useful analytical tool' and adopting its' conclusions as true when they are true (human life begins at conception) and rejecting parts of it when false (macro-
It's interesting some of same people yelling 'iTs cRt aAhHhH!' have no problem recognizing science as a 'useful analytical tool' and adopting its' conclusions as true when they are true (human life begins at conception) and rejecting parts of it when false (macro-
evolution). No one (sensible) conflates all believers who accept life beginning at conception with non-Christian folks who accept macroevolution as *all* believing the science is a worldview. The latter have a naturalistic and materialistic worldview, the former do not.
Both may come to the same conclusions (e.g. a zygote is a human at the earliest stage of development) based on the same criteria (biologically human, unique DNA, growth/reproduction, eventual development into a fully grown human) using the same tools.
At the same time, both may hold completely opposite views of the nature of God, man, sin and salvation.
My observations and readings of CRT have been similar to this. CRT is sometimes like the kid who gets the right answer to an algebra problem by the wrong process.
My observations and readings of CRT have been similar to this. CRT is sometimes like the kid who gets the right answer to an algebra problem by the wrong process.
Other times, it's the kid who put 1 + 1 together and got 11 as the answer. More importantly, switching the roles of oppressor and oppressed doesn't fix the problem.
As a Christian addressing the issue of race and ethnicity in the US, I don't need CRT to figure out
As a Christian addressing the issue of race and ethnicity in the US, I don't need CRT to figure out
that redlining continues to be systemic problem in the US. I don't need CRT to figure out that the NC Voter ID laws were set up to suppress the DNC vote by suppressing the black vote (and the courts have noted this as well - in detail). I don't need CRT to look at
the differences in policing and the approach to community relations between black and non-black communities, even in my own back yard (PG County MD). Those of us who've lived here for decades already knew what the report released this past summer pointed out about PGPD. And we've
seen it in the DOJ's Ferguson PD report and the DOJ's Baltimore PD report. Our entertainers, poets, politicians and pugilists have all written and talked about it publicly, protested against it and such waaaaay before 2012. To pretend it's a "new problem started by Obama" is
to be historically ignorant and dishonest. More importantly, to blame it on Marx or CRT is foolish. Spurgeon didn't need (or use) CT or any of its' antecedents to condemn slavery and its' adherents. He used scripture. The same with Carl Henry and others in the 40's regarding
segregation and the racism of that time. He used and applied scripture rightly. So did Buswell in the 60's.
Sadly, the same responses from traditionally conservative crowds ('trouble maker', 'communist', 'marxist', 'causing division') back then are the same responses now.
Sadly, the same responses from traditionally conservative crowds ('trouble maker', 'communist', 'marxist', 'causing division') back then are the same responses now.
Just some observations. I'm not the only one who has noticed.
The continued conflation of Christianity with American conservative politics and patriotism has been more of a harm to the church and the witness/credibility of the church than CRT was or will be...
The continued conflation of Christianity with American conservative politics and patriotism has been more of a harm to the church and the witness/credibility of the church than CRT was or will be...
