Spitting in God’s Face: Making Believers Feel Guilty when they Ought to Be Thankful, Part 2

How Critical Race Theory Wrongly Interprets God’s Blessings as Something of Which Believers—Especially White Believers—Ought to Be Ashamed

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Why Critical Race Theory Never Will Lead to Racial Reconciliation

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. To you and yours, Happy Thanksgiving! — B. Nathaniel Sullivan

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Racism is not dead [in America], but it is on life support — kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as “racists.”
—Thomas Sowell—

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Overview: Critical race theory (CRT), a godless ideology that is popular today even among many prominent evangelical leaders, seeks to make white Christians feel guilty rather than thankful God has blessed them. The goal is to shame them as “racists” who supposedly have selfishly benefitted from a cultural system that favors them over blacks and other minorities. Yet an objective look at the facts tells us that even though racism hasn’t been totally eliminated, America in the 21^st century isn’t a racist county. Actually, a significant amount of racial tension continues to come from the advocates of CRT themselves—people who claim to be working to eliminate racism! Against the backdrop of these cultural forces, everyone will do well to learn about and heed the example the Pilgrims set in the New World in the early 17^th century. They demonstrated gratitude to God and found common ground with nearby native Americans. They even welcomed one of them into their own community as a brother.

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In the inaugural article of this series of posts, we summarized William Bradford’s account of the Plymouth Settlement’s experiment in socialism. The two-year venture completely failed, so in 1623 Bradford replaced it with a free market economy model that affirmed private property rights and natural incentives to work and produce. Immediately and markedly, things changed for the better for the fledgling community. Despite leftist claims that attempt to refute the historical record, Governor Bradford himself attests to what happened in his account of Plymouth titled Of Plymouth Plantation. Socialism didn’t work because it doesn’t work.

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Socialism didn’t work because it doesn’t work.

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Last time, in our second article, we began to deal with another ideology that has ties to Marxism and cultural Marxism—critical race theory (CRT). We gave special attention to how CRT is used by social justice warriors (SJWs) in evangelical churches to make white Christians feel guilty for being the beneficiaries of God’s blessings. Relying on CRT, SJWs accuse whites of being racists and of oppressing minorities, especially blacks, through a cultural system that supposedly favors them over people of color. This “systemic oppression” is assumed to be real despite the significant progress Americans have made in improving race relations since the end of the Civil War, and especially in the last sixty or so years.

This is the third article in our series on Thanksgiving this year, and here we want to refute CRT by citing the example the Pilgrims set in giving thanks to God and in relating to the Native Americans among them.

The Mayflower arrived at Plymouth on November 11, 1620. Imagine you’re reading William Bradford’s own account. He’s using contemporary English to report on his and his fellow Pilgrims’ experiences over the first few months.

The winter of 1621 was especially cruel. Of our party of about 102, half died.¹ My beloved wife Dorothy was one of the first. You can read their names and the dates of their deaths (as best we’ve been able to record them) on this timeline.

When winter was over and spring at last had arrived, God blessed us with an alliance with the neighboring Indians. One of them, Squanto,…became, not just a friend, but also a brother. His tribe, which a few years before had occupied the very land on which our settlement now was rising, had been wiped out by a plague. Had Squanto not been kidnapped and taken to Europe, he too would have died. He was able to make it back to his home, only to discover when he arrived none of the members of his tribe had survived. We became his new family.²

Not Mere Conicidences

It is difficult to imagine that these events occurred by chance.…

To read this article in its entirety, please go here.

You can access additional articles in this series from this page.

 

Copyright © 2020 by B. Nathaniel Sullivan. All rights reserved.

top image credit: Photo by wisconsinpictures on Unsplash

image credit: Mayflower II

Note:

¹Larry Schweikart, 48 Liberal Lies About American History (that You Probably Learned in School), (New York: Sentinel, 2008), 178. Schweikart writes, “Of the Mayflower’s 102 Pilgrims who arrived at Plymouth Rock, only 46 remained alive by the following spring.”

²In this interview from CBN, Eric Metaxas, who wrote a book about Squanto, states, “And it just so happens that he [Squanto] grew up on the very spot where they had settled. This was his home that had been abandoned, and now he was back in his village, and they basically adopted him. He had no place to go. They became his family.”