How Critical Race Theory Wrongly Interprets God’s Blessings as Something of Which Believers—Especially White Believers—Ought to Be Ashamed
Note: I am reposting this article from last year because it has become even more relevant than it was when it was first released. The social justice movement and its narrative are more pervasive and forceful than ever, and they must be challenged. They are based on lies, and we confront lies with the truth. Hopefully this article will help you challenge critical race theory and other social justice ideologies effectively. — B. Nathaniel Sullivan
Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy — quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody’s rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can’t tell the water where to go.
—Social researcher and economist Thomas Sowell—
Key point: When believers, who are commanded by God to be thankful for His blessings, are made to feel guilty for those blessings, they have been manipulated by an unbiblical ideology.
Last time William Bradford, Governor of the Plymouth Settlement, told us about the Pilgrims’ two-year experiment with an economic system that denied individual property rights and that stipulated the community would hold all things produced and consumed in common. The economic model they tried later would become known as socialism—and it failed completely.
Knowing they’d all die if they continued operating under this model, the Pilgrims ditched it and replaced it with a free-market-economy model. And none too soon, either. The change saved the colony and quite probably extended the lives of every Pilgrim involved.
Socialism didn’t work because it doesn’t work. As David Horowitz notes, socialism cannot work “because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.”
Socialism cannot work because “because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.”
—David Horowitz—
Critical Race Theory: An Unbiblical Ideology
Even though the experience of Bradford and his fellow Pilgrims sounds forth an all-important warning to avoid the Marxist “ideal” of socialism, many other lessons abound as well. In this post and the next I want to zero in on something the Pilgrims’ experience teaches us about gratitude, as well as the warning it issues about another Marxist ideology—Critical Race Theory, or CRT.
CRT is all the rage right now, even among evangelicals. We have warned about it in previous posts, but the Pilgrims’ example of gratitude—even before the Thanksgiving celebration of 1623, and even before what many consider the first Thanksgiving celebration of 1621—give us a golden opportunity to sound the warning anew.
What is critical race theory?…
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