Saying “CRT” or “Marxism” is now a non-starter when trying to explain to Christians the errors in the mainstream narratives about social justice and systemic racism. I think the first task is to explain, without buzz words, why what they’re asserting is simply not based on fact.
& I think the way to do that is to ask before arguing. Ask them for specifics, for data, for clarification, for definitions. Ask them to lay down their buzzwords of “privilege,” “oppression,” “Christian nationalism,” etc just as they’ve demanded you lay down yours. Speak plainly
Keep picking and prodding until you both are really clear about what they’re asserting. Then, if you disagree or can rebut any of their definitions or assertions with truth, do that. I would start with data & logic then move into the Biblical realm, personally.
Minds can and do change through arguments, on social media and elsewhere. I’ve watched it happen. I’ve experienced it. Don’t be gaslit into thinking you’re the crazy one for caring about this topic
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Let’s talk about justice & Micah 6:8. The word for justice used there is misphat, which is used most frequently in Scripture to mean judgment in the context of criminal procedures, in court cases, sentencing, verdicts. To “do” justice in this verse means to execute, carry out. 1/
Micah is prophesying to a people who had turned to idols and whose leaders were failing to enact God’s misphat. How do we know what God’s justice looks like? He makes it very clear in his law-giving to Israel. 2/
At least 4 characteristics that we see of procedural justice in the OT are 1) truthful (based on fact, evidence, witnesses) 2) impartial (unbiased, no special treatment) 3) direct (impacts those involved in the crime) 4) proportional (punishment fits crime) 3/
There is nothing more transcendent than the resurrection of the God-man, Jesus. Literally: his resurrection transcends our finite conceptions of science & rationality. That the Word became flesh, dwelt among us, then was slain for our sins only to conquer death 3 days later? 🤯
The irreverent "reverend" thinks Easter is 'bigger' than Jesus's resurrection because he doesn't care about nor believe in its significance. As an advocate of Liberation Theology, he views Jesus as an example in political activism, not as King & Conqueror of sin & death.
The lie of Critical Race Theory—that America is uniquely and pervasively racist and therefore has no authority to criticize other countries—is postmodern, morally relativistic nonsense that empowers evil, colonizing, enslaving empires like China.
Equating China’s crimes and the US’s is an insanity that teaches people here to hate their country and fellow citizens, weakening our resolve to stand for the very values that have always contained regimes like the CCP.
Every part of the culture war of postmodern left—like the redefinitions of both justice and gender—work to make us confused, divided, hateful, and weak. A divided & weak America is very good for the world’s worst countries, and very bad for their victims.
1) “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?“ - Jesus in Matthew 19
2) It’s poor theology all around. Jesus is God according to John 1:1. Therefore whatever God says throughout Scripture, Jesus says too. And, in this case, Jesus also said it.
3) We honor both prohibitions and definitions in Scripture. Scripture doesn’t just prohibit certain types of sexual behavior but positively affirms and defines that which is acceptable to God.
Christian conservatives have ceded ground in every possible arena for at least 50 years. At some point we decided science, medicine, entertainment and public & higher education were all secular endeavors whose degeneracy was inevitable.
So we resigned ourselves to yelling about the problems instead of doing anything about them. We said “Jesus said things would get worse...” and ignored our God-given capacity & responsibility to make them any better.
This is completely out of step with both historical Catholicism & Protestantism. Christians founded the universities that now scoff at the idea of a Creator. Christians built the hospitals now providing abortions & gender reassignment surgery for teens.
The government makes for a terrible parent, nanny, moral arbiter and an even worse god. It does not love you. It does not know your or your kids’ names. It does not care about you. It cannot determine morality or truth. The best it can do is to protect your right to be left alone
This is why the pursuit of smaller government & conservation of the constitution is inextricably intertwined with the preservation of the family and faith. If people don’t find belonging, identity & care from these places, they will look to the state.
Any “conservative” movement that neglects the importance of the family and a view of God as our supreme moral Lawgiver will never, ever work. There must be an institution stronger than, and a transcendent authority higher than, the government.