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| It is easy for Christians to agree that racism is wrong (of course it is), and then to naively affiliate themselves with a movement that is not what it appears to be on the wrapper. We would never condone the phrase "useful idiots" to describe these well-meaning people, but some have shamefully used the term. No. Naive Christians are not idiots. They are simply uninformed. This condition can be fixed. |
Last week we
shared about President Trump's executive order to withhold federal funding from any agency affiliated with the U.S. government that employs training based on Critical Race Theory.
This executive order put the term
"Critical Race Theory" on the map. The term even turned up in the presidential
debate last Tuesday (we use the words "presidential" and
"debate" very loosely).
Most Americans, however, are unclear what Critical Theory is, and why it is such a big problem.
To understand what the big problem is, in a nutshell, click here.
To more fully understand the issues behind Critical Theory, and its offspring Critical Race Theory and Critical Pedagogy, we have included several links below that
will be helpful.
Bear in mind that not all of the people in the videos linked below are Christ-followers. Some atheists (particularly "classical liberals") are speaking out about the threat Critical Theory poses to free speech and open dialogue. They are deeply concerned about the current "cancel culture," wherein people are not satisfied with just calling others out, but feel a moral obligation to bring people down, eliminating dissent through intimidation or force, like religious cult members.
The first two clips below are first-hand
reports from employees at Sandia National Laboratories, one
of three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development
labs in the United States. These employees relate their personal experiences
with training based upon Critical Theory. These two video clips will help you understand why the President of the U.S. is so concerned:
An interview of Dr. Carol Swain, former professor of political science and law, who taught at Vanderbilt and Princeton University:
Interviews of Christopher Rufo, director
of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty:
Interviews of Dr. James Lindsay, mathematician and
best-selling author:
An interview of Douglas Murray, best-selling author, political commentator and founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion (U.K.):
We conclude this post with a quote from John Adams, one-time President of the United States, who on October 11, 1798, declared:
"...we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
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