by Hiram R. Diaz III
[N.B. Next week, I want to explain my last post, as it was partially tongue-in-cheek. Is there a conservative emphasis in new movies and TV shows? I'm not sure, but I thought I'd share a deconstructive review of recent TV shows and films, in order to provide and example of how Christians can subvert the world's reasoning against it. I hope to explain my intention in a little more detail next week. So if you're interested, stay tuned :)
As for this post, it is a re-post of an article I wrote back in October of 2018. I thought it would be helpful to anyone who has come across recent claims that Voddie Bauchaum's book Fault Lines "misrepresents" Critical Race Theory and the social justice movement. CRT and Social Justice advocates utilize the same bad arguments and rhetorical tricks that I have elsewhere brought attention to, so what the current pro-Social Justice and pro-CRT professing Christians are currently doing is nothing new to me. They were doing this back in 2018, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were doing it in years prior to 2018. In any case, I hope this article benefits you.]
I want to give a basic explanation of why it is that Critical Race Theory (hereafter, CRT) is not only un-Christian but anti-Christian. This necessarily involves first defining CRT, establishing how its stated goals are distinct from the Christian’s duty to love one’s neighbor as oneself, disambiguating the discussion surrounding the “origin” of CRT, and then demonstrating the anti-Christian philosophical underpinnings it cannot exist without.
…the view that race, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is socially constructed and that race, as a socially constructed concept, functions as a means to maintain the interests of the white population that constructed it. According to CRT, racial inequality emerges from the social, economic, and legal differences that white people create between “races” to maintain elite white interest in labour markets and politics and as such create the circumstances that give rise to poverty and criminality in many minority communities.[Source]
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”-Matt 5:14-16
The launch of the CRT movement in 1989 marked its separation from critical legal studies (CLS; the theory established at a conference in 1977 that rethinks and overturns accepted norms and standards in legal practice and theory).[Source]
Instead of drawing theories of social organization and individual behaviour from continental European thinkers such as G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx or psychoanalytic figures like Sigmund Freud as its theoretical predecessors, as CLS and feminist jurisprudence had done, CRT inspired by the American civil rights tradition through figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and W.E.B. Du Bois, and from nationalist thinkers such as Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and Frantz Fanon” [Source].
…sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness— an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.[Source]
1. Man is an animal.2. Man’s needs are ultimately related to the preservation of physical life.3. Man’s needs are inextricably related to a primal desire to obtain power.4. The conscious expressions of others are only part of the story, they may in fact be concealing attitudes, beliefs, and desires that completely contradict what they consciously express.5. Man’s soul/psyche is dependent upon his material conditions.6. The psyche/soul is wholly naturalistic, i.e. a product of brain chemistry and nothing more.
...each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
…he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
God’s knowledge is unchanging, indefeasible (i.e. not capable of being augmented or entirely rejected by further study or research or correction from another rational being), and is not dependent upon creation. This knowledge is given to us by God as he sees fit. Because we are creatures, we necessarily receive that knowledge in a creaturely way (e.g. in time, alongside of our physical experiences (some argue that it is through those experiences), and in particular contexts (though these contexts aren’t always related to the knowledge we receive alongside our being historically located in them). So while we learn as creatures, because we will always be creatures who receive from God any knowledge we possess, it follows that knowledge of anything is not dependent upon our experiences, socio-economic or otherwise.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.-2nd Tim 3:16-17
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