This is a tactic I’ve seen over & over again: pre-empting criticism & dismissing it rather then addressing it, and conflating the sincere critiques of faithful Christians with empty ad hominem attacks. It is a manipulative cop-out. 1/
There are Christians of all ethnicities who care about justice who are trying to warn the church about the dangers of prescribing Marxist solutions rather than biblical ones. They have not failed to clearly articulate what they mean by this. These aren’t lazy attacks.
No Christian is calling someone who cares about prejudice and injustice a Marxist. Christians are calling Marxism Marxism. We’re calling Critical Theory Critical Theory. And we’re saying here’s why these world views are opposed to the Bible & the gospel. There’s a better way.
So maybe instead of brushing off the Christ followers who are trying to lovingly warn the church against damaging ideologies like Marxism, listen to them. You likely have the same goals: glorifying God and loving our neighbor. But we accomplish that by living biblically.
Of course, as both Neil Shenvi & Voddie Baucham have pointed out on my podcast recently, the dismissal of objectivity and debate as the “language of the oppressor” is in itself a product of the critical theory worldview, which makes sincere discussion nor impossible can but hard.
*not impossible but
*than!!
Also, yes, I know, THAN. I’ll never be able to face the public again
