Thread by @JoshDaws

Critical Theory is the reason you’re seeing so much division in the SBC. It’s parasitic in nature. It attaches to real concerns by offering explanations that implicate systems of power. It shifts the concerns from instances of abuse/racism to the systems that produce them. 1/

Critical Theory turns any disagreement about the nature of those systems/institutions into evidence of the oppression embedded within them. Not every abuse case is open and shut. When disagreement over a particular case arises this is further evidence. 2/

Critical Theory doesn’t allow for any legitimate disagreement between faithful brothers and sisters in Christ. For instance, someone could agree that a particular incident is abhorrent without agreeing that that incident was produced by an oppressive system. 3/

Critical Theory would see that disagreement as trying to protect the powerful. This is because CT isn’t concerned with individual instances of abuse/oppression. Its concern, its target is the systems in power. It was designed to dismantle and disrupt those systems. 4/

We saw this very clearly with the deranged young man that murdered all the Asians in Georgia earlier this year. The conversation quickly shifted from that particular tragedy to the problem of white evangelical churches like the one he attended. The system was to blame. /5

The system needed to be dismantled. This is what Critical theory does. It was designed for revolution. You can see it at work now in the SBC. We have to reject this worldview that sees everything in terms of systems of power. Pray that those under its spell would wake up. 6/6