A Christian Perspective on Critical Race Theory
What is it and how should Christians respond to it?
It’s hard to turn on the television, read the news, or surf the internet without seeing or hearing something about Critical Race Theory. It’s in schools, at work. and even in some Christian churches.
But what is it really… and how should Christians respond to it?
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a toxic Marxist ideology that is poisoning the minds of our children and undoing more than a century of racial progress in America. It was popularized by the 2017 book “Critical Race Theory - An Introduction” by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic… and advanced by another equally foolish text, 2018’s “White Fragility” by Robyn D'Angelo. All three of these individuals are current or former college professors… not inhabitants of the real world.
Simply put, CRT is an unproven theory based on a few main assumptions… These are their ideas… not mine!
1. Racism is normal. It's the usual way of society… the common everyday experience of most people of color in the United States. Racism is everywhere, all the time, and is unavoidable.
2. Racism advances the interests of white people only, who are incapable of righteous actions on race and white people can do nothing other than be racist.
3. Knowledge is socially constructed, and no objective truth exists. Science, critical thinking, and mathematics are white and must be rejected in favor of narrative stories based only on the personal experiences of people of color.
4. Oppressed groups will never overcome disadvantages until the racist structures are destroyed and replaced by laws and fundamental rights that are different based on the race of the individuals involved.
Critical Race Theory is primarily promoted in the United States. It is about deconstructing, destroying, and undermining the family, our democracy, capitalism, the church, and the police while expanding the powers of government. It is about achieving a state of social justice. Critical Race Theory and social justice are nothing more than socialism by a different name. Both are deceptions, holding that equality of outcome be achieved only by taking away something that one person has earned and handing it to someone else who didn't earn it. There's a simple way to understand that… it’s called stealing.
At its very core, Critical Race Theory is in itself blatantly racist. It doesn’t matter if you hate someone because they're white, black, red, yellow, or brown… hating someone because of their skin color is still racism.
The idea of separate races is not Biblical. God did not create different races… He created one race called the human race. Genesis 1:26 tells us that God created man in His image and likeness. The term “the image of God” refers to the immaterial part of our humanity that gives us the capacity to reason, make free choices, and take responsibility for our actions. Rather than people being defined by their race or class as CRT suggests, we are measured biblically by our individual acts and attitudes…
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. (Revelation 20:11–13 NASB).
Sadly, some wrong-thinking Christian pastors and leaders have foolishly suggested that the church must embrace critical race theory, or else they are not preaching the true gospel. Some have ventured even further into the realm of heretical doctrine, suggesting that whiteness is a sin and that whites must “repent” of it (which is not possible according to CRT devotees) for them to be truly saved… That is a lie from the pit of hell.
Hopefully, this is not happening in your church if it is… you must question it. If CRT is being taught in your child's or grandchild’s school you must push back against the school board. Christians must reject Critical Race Theory because it conflicts with a Biblical worldview. CRT seeks to replace the God of the Bible with a sick brand of socialism that promotes material and social concepts to the exclusion of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Tell me what you think…