I think what is lacking in this conversation about CRT and especially the seminary presidents statement is this. Resolution 9 repudiates it being used as an absolutized worldview. However, it acknowledged that certain insights via analysis can helpfully describe some social
2/ phenomena. I support that resolution, and I believe that is an honest to take on CRT. And I have never changed my position on this. I do believe its main weakness is that it said nothing about the critical theory that now animates critical race theory. This is why almost
3/ everywhere you find it being used, it is being used as an absolutized worldview. You only need to look at the multiple articles as of late from the New York Times, Washington Post, and other papers that demonstrate the absolute insanity that is happening on certain college
4/ campuses and high schools. It is that kind of CRT that most of us are making a big deal about. I’ve never seen a benign CRT being used in the mainstream. Instead, I’ve seen the federal curriculum stating that the scientific method, objective truth, the protestant work ethic,
5/ and the entire Judeo Christian ethic are forms of white supremacy. That is CRT in the mainstream. As a pastor, I have had to sit down with parents heartbroken after sending their child to a “Christian college“ only to have their child come back hating white people and now
6/ denying the faith in order to join with BLM and other likeminded organizations. And when I say deny the faith, this person does not believe in the inerrancy of scripture, the divinity of Christ, or any of the ethics of the Bible. She now denies it all. Everything is now about
7/ power to this person. That’s when it becomes real for a lot of people. That’s when it’s not a boogie man as some of you guys try to shame those who sound the alarm. The presidents statement was against this absolutized form that we are seeing multiply throughout society. But
9/ when some of you start shaming in order to make people feel guilty about sounding the alarm, that’s not right. This is not an attempt to silence POC‘s from lamenting the lingering effects of slavery and Jim Crow. This is not a denial that the criminal justice system
10/ incarcerates & executes POC‘s at a rate highly disproportionate to their white counterparts. This is not to deny that in many parts of the country there are people who are racist and hold to the curse of Ham false doctrine. Instead, this is a repudiation something that is
11/ functioning like a worldview that is causing people to leave the faith, that is splitting families apart, and that is seeking reverse bigotry against the majority population. Those who want to address aspects of systemic racism that still exist should be free to do so. In
12/ fact, POC‘s have been doing that long before CRT was a thing. So this is not all or nothing. Yes, some people want to claim that every bit of the analysis of CRT is wrong all the time, but that is not what the presidents statement was saying. The statement was against CRT
13/ when it functions as a worldview. If we can’t get both sides on this issue to agree that this kind of CRT is incompatible with Christianity, then we truly cannot cooperate together any further. If your fear is an agreement to this somehow means you can no longer bring up
14/ issues of systemic racism, that is not the case. People really need to sit down and have discussions and see what each other ARE saying and ARE NOT saying. Because I can promise you, the people who wrote resolution 9 and the people who wrote the presidents statement are not
15/ in opposition to each other. One prominent man keeps saying any attempt to change resolution 9 is a denouncement of the African-Americans that worked on it. Yet when I proposed an updated resolution to California that added a condemnation of critical theory to what was in
16/ Res 9, the very AA scholars who worked on resolution 9 supported and applauded my update. So don’t let people sell you a bill of nonsense that there is some divide over this issue among the leaders of our SBC institutions. Instead, let’s have some real conversations.
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