As Joseph Epstein has said, the current quest for diversity is only a diversity of like-minded individuals. It is a rigid conformity to a leftist philosophy; it is groupthink, lockstep conformity with leftist thinking, and not diversity at all.
Clearly wherever one finds the cult of the multicult there one has happened upon a nest of neo-Marxists. This is true regardless of whether you find the nest in a Government School or in a Presbyterian Church. I mention the Church because legion are the names of ministers and churches who are saying that “diverse” churches are automatically superior, implying that Jesus loves those kinds of churches even more than non-diverse churches. Such thinking is outhouse fodder.
Dr. John Frame has the right idea of all this when he says,
“Scripture, as I read it, does not require societies, or even churches, to be integrated racially. Jews and Gentiles were brought together by God’s grace into one body. They were expected to love one another and to accept one another as brothers in the faith. But the Jewish Christians continued to maintain a distinct culture, and house churches were not required to include members of both groups.”
John Frame,
“Racism, Sexism, Marxism”
Yet, the challenge to the historic Christian view that Frame thumps for is seen everywhere in our culture;
“A mark of a healthy church is when the people are part of diverse communities and share the Gospel with diverse group of people.”
E. Lansing Michigan
I often daydream about a scene of an unchurched person walking their dog one late Sunday morning. As this person and their pet turn right on the main road, they peacefully walk by the local church as the service is being let out. As this person and their pet walk by, the pet owner begins to notice that there is something peculiar about the scene in the church parking lot, but cannot quite put her finger on it. There are people of different ages, socio-economic status, and ethnicity in joyful community as they make their way to their vehicles. The pet owner continues on with her walk, but is often reminded about what she saw in the parking lot that day.
Rev. Ron Burns
SBC Pastor
I call you tonight, dear friends, not simply to repent corporately for past, overt acts of racism— which we must do, and Lord willing, which we will do. I call you to commit to the dismantling of White Cultural Normativity in the PCA. And I call you to the establishment of a new norm—a new vision for our denomination that might be called Multicultural Normativity.
Duke Kwon
PCA Elder
One could also pull quotes from former SBC President J. D. Grear, former SBC Ethics guru Russel Moore, and current President of Southern Baptist Seminary Al Mohler. One can throw a rock in any direction and easily hit one of these ecclesiastical multiculturalists.
Yet, the irony in all this is that these people, as the Schmidt note above communicates are really pursuing theological-ideological uniformitarianism that is approved by people coming from people who are united by their agreement in championing Cultural Marxism, WOKEism, as well as alternative sexual lifestyles (consider the PCA’s problem with Side-B sodomy).
The leadership in this push are all grifters pulling a long con on people who don’t have the brains that God gave them at birth. Do you really think these chiselers would stand for diversity in ideology and theology? Do you think they would put up with the diversity I would bring to their congregations? Not in a million years would their diversity allow for Bret McAtee diversity. These people desire to build multicultural churches (an oxymoron if there ever was one) that are uniformitarian in the Cultural Marxist ideology they are passing as theology. Only people who understand historic Reformed Christianity are not welcome. Those kinds of people are too diverse for us.
If they were honest they would advertise themselves by saying something like;
“Everyone is welcome here who are in favor of the book burning of Achord and Dow’s book that proves we are teaching heresy.”
Men like this are just the newest version of Elmer Gantry. More than anything else they are ecclesiastical supporters of the NWO.
If the Church had any spine they would throw them out on their keisters.
