Critical Race Theory as Religion, and the way it Evangelizes

“In CRT every individual is to be induced with CRT. In service of this monomaniacal goal (predicated on a bad article of faith) every institution, particularly those dedicated to the production of culture, must be turned into a tool that raises a critical consciousness of race. The objective is simple. Every convertible person must be converted, and every position of power and influence must be occupied by someone whose consciousness has been awakened. Understanding this mentality makes almost everything Critical Race Theorists do immediately comprehensible, no matter how bizarre. It’s all about creating converts and installing them into positions of power where they will not have accountability (holding them accountable would be racist). They do this by seizing the means of cultural production and repurposing them to evangelize Critical Race Theory.”

James Lindsey
Race Marxism — p. 225

We are living in a time when this evangelism (actually propaganda) is ubiquitous. In the photos that come in our Alma Mater magazines that obviously go out of their way to put the only minority in a sea of white faces in the center of the photograph, to the films and TV which push inter-racial marriage and the Queer agenda, to every government agency and corporate training time with their pushing of White guilt, to 99% of American pulpits and churches implicitly or explicitly teaching that Jesus loves inter-racial churches more than he does churches that are obviously racist because their attendance is 100% white, to the push for inter-racial adoptions because that really pleases Jesus, to the sports world which refuses to hold affirmative action spots for white athletes the way the rest of the world has to follow the affirmative action paradigm in the other direction, to the ACT, SAT, LSAT, and MCAT tests that give one extra points on the test merely because one is a minority, to the law enforcement world where the lie gains traction, despite whole books proving the contrary, that Cops are especially dangerous to minorities, ad infinitum we are propagandized and evangelized into the Critical Race Theory faith.

And if that doesn’t get the job done then there is the economic threat of being visited with Cancel Culture because one doesn’t share the CRT faith. Propaganda thus moves from manipulation to coercion and extortion. Finally, if one refuses to be converted by the above means there is the final option of the modern inquisition where Mao’s maxim is applied; “power flows from the barrel of a gun.”

Oh, and let us not forget the evangelistic aspect that includes the force of law. Here we find the recommendation of one Ibram X. Kendi (born Ibram Henry Rogers) that encourages legislation to work as a evangelistic tool for CRT;

“To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution that enshrines two guiding anti-racist principals: Racial inequity is evidence of racist policy and the different racial groups are equals. The amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold, as well as racist ideas by public officials (with “racist ideas” and “public official” clearly defined). It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.”

In all actuality this idea is a “anti-white” bill and is part of the goal to make the religion of CRT cover America.

Now, understand that it is the above for which the WOKE preachers are stumping. Every time Sumpter, or Brito, or Clark, or Wilson, or Sey, or Strachan inveigh against Christian Nationalism or Kinism or insist that “race doesn’t really exist,” this is the religion they are pushing.

Now, I freely admit that they may not be epistemologically self conscious about that but that does not negate the fact that they are CRT snake oil evangelists and so are doing the devil’s work.

A Resurfaced Technique From The French Revolution’s Terror Stage

In Revolutionary France during the time of Terror it was called denunciation;

“Denounce the crimes, denounce the criminals, a double award awaits you: the voice of your conscience, for denunciation is a virtue: and a legitimate reward, for the National Convention is just and desires that each virtuous act should be a means by which the sans culotte may improve his lot… “

December 1793 Commission Temporaire
Ad hoc revolutionary authority installed in the city of Lyon after the Federalist revolt

In China during the time of Mao’s Cultural Revolution it was called “Struggle Sessions,” or denunciation rallies. These were were violent public spectacles intended to shame and humiliate people for “wrong think.” These sessions also became opportunities for people to demonstrate their patriotism. It was so bad it was not uncommon for even children to turn in their parents, or spouses to turn in their mate.

Today in America it is called “Virtue signaling.” We see it when CREC ministers (Sumpter, Wilson, Brito, Hemmke, etc.) denounce Kinists. We see it when Dr. Moanin’ Owen Strachan denounces Dr. Stephen Wolfe for Wolfe’s support of Christian Nationalism. We see it when the Steve Hemmke denounces Darryl Dow by writing a pitiful review of a book Hemmke never read, we see it when Rod Dreher denounced Thomas Achord despite Achord’s previous kindness to Dreher’s family. These new struggle session are breaking out everywhere.

What we are finding in our current Evangelical/Reformed version of the struggle session is those who are not sufficiently WOKE, per the standards of their Cultural Marxism and CRT are denounced for their thought crimes. Usually it comes in the version of “Racist,” or “Kinist” or “Anti-Semite.” The effect of it all is to force the modern church culture in the West to align with the worldview of WOKE-ism.

The only way to triumph over this insanity is in the name of Jesus Christ and by His authority to return their denunciations and so denounce them as traitors to Jesus Christ and Biblical Christianity. By the means of the Word of God accompanied by necessary deductions from the Word of God these people need to be stopped from filling out their roles as Soviet Commissars. These thought police must be eliminated.

In the words of John Moody

“We don’t have to be “kind and gentle” to wolves, false teachers, and those betraying the church and openly compromising with the wicked.

Love them like God does, enough “to shatter their teeth” if necessary to stop their evil.”

“How Stupid Can One Be,” is not Supposed to be a Challenge — Rev. Uri Brito

“Kinism is a fundamental denial of God’s redemptive plan to restructure the world under the culture of resurrection and ascension. It wishes to return to a pre-AD 70 universe where race and lineage prevailed instead of the new creation in Messiah Jesus.”

Rev. Uriesou Brito
Yet Another CREC Retard

One wonders whose ear these guys are pulling this waxy substance from.

1.) Note here the matter vs. spirit kind of Manicheanism/Gnosticism. Pre-Ad 70 material world bad. Post-AD 70 new creation (spiritual) world good. Apparently, when Jesus brings in the new creation the new creation is no longer corporeal so that race and lineage are real realities.

2.) Someone might want to tell Rev. U Brito that race and lineage do not go away simply because someone or some people group are redeemed. When the Sawi people, by God’s grace were visited with Redemption as brought to them by the Herald of God’s Gospel, Don Richardson, the Sawi people did not cease being Sawi. They became the Sawi people living now in a Sawi culture that was shaped by the resurrection and ascension.

For Pete’s sake is Rev. UB going to gainsay the great Augustine?

“Difference of race or condition or sex is indeed taken away by the unity of faith, but it remains imbedded in our mortal interactions, and in the journey of this life the apostles themselves teach that it is to be respected, and they even proposed living in accord with the racial differences between Jews and Greeks as a wholesome rule.”

St. Augustine on Galatians 3:28

Is Rev. UB wiser than Calvin?

“Regarding our eternal salvation, it is true that one must not distinguish between man and woman, or between king and a shepherd, or between a German and a Frenchman. Regarding policy, however, we have what St. Paul declares here; for our, Lord Jesus Christ did not come to mix up nature, or to abolish what belongs to the preservation of decency and peace among us….Regarding the kingdom of God (which is spiritual) there is no distinction or difference between man and woman, servant and master, poor and rich, great and small. Nevertheless, there does have to be some order among us, and Jesus Christ did not mean to eliminate it, as some flighty and scatterbrained dreamers [believe].”

John Calvin (Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:2-3)

One wonders what Rev. UB does with Jesus being the “Lion of the Tribe of Judah?” Were the inspired writers of Scripture also denying God’s plan to restructure the world redemptively? Frankly, this is so dorky, so lamebrained, so chuckleheaded that one begins to run out of synonyms for “stupid.”

3.) The problem that Rev. UB has (as well as these other lunkheads) is that his anthropology really sucks eggs. Does man, upon regeneration, becomes something other than who God has created him to be corporeally? Once again we see the denial the grace restores nature, in favor of a doctrine that grace destroys nature.

4.) Notice the antithesis the Rev. UB has introduced. Rev. UB’s antithesis is  race and lineage vs. new creation as if new creation erases race and lineage, as if race and lineage are wicked and new creation is righteous because it eliminates race and lineage. It is maddening enough to cause a bald man to go get hair implants so he can tear it out.

5.) What does Rev. UB do with all those passages in the OT (Isaiah 2 & Micah 4 to just name two) that talk explicitly about all the nations streaming to the Mountain of the Lord?

6.) Everything said by Rev. UB said above is completely out of his nether regions. It has absolutely no roots or grounding in Scripture. It is the height of desperation and frankly, it is a gross mishandling of the Word of God.

These chaps are going to be awfully disappointed at how corporeal the new heavens and the new earth is going to be.

 

Recovering All the Past Doug, or only Part of It?

” There is no way for America to recover herself without recognizing the actual sources of the actual legacy we actually squandered. That legacy came from somewhere, and all the wishing in the world won’t transform it into something that will have come from somewhere else. Subtle uses of the subjunctive can’t alter the past. And our past is a covenanted past. Our past is a Christian past. Our past is the source of the good gifts we are now using in the pursuit of our debauchery.”

Doug Wilson
The Prodigal Son & Christian Nationalism
21 August 2023

I can only add an AMEN to what Doug says above even though it doesn’t cover all the territory needed to be covered.

Our past is also a White Anglo Saxon Protestant past and there is no way Doug can lead in the recovery he calls for until Doug repents of not recognizing that source of our past that he is contributing to in squandering by railing against Kinists.

Oh sure, Doug will agree with the necessity of recovering our Protestant past but he will give a “hard pass” to the need to recover our White Anglo-Saxon roots. This is what Kinists are calling for but Doug is a leading voice in denouncing this attempt by Kinists to recover our past that we have squandered. By doing so, Doug demonstrates he has a Gnostic streak running through him and that he has more in common with Moanin’ Owen Strychnine than he does with Dr. Stephen Wolfe.

Let Doug be consistent and call for the recovering the legacy of America’s White Anglo Saxon Protestant Christian past. I mean, not even Doug’s subtle usage of the subjunctive can alter the past.

Interrogating Dr. Stephen Wolfe & His Book, “The Case For Christian Nationalism” VII

“We encounter the Gospel when we experience the places made spiritually significant by our Christian loved ones.”

Dr. Stephen Wolfe
The Case for Christian Nationalism — p. 179

 

“The instrumentalities of the family are chosen and ordained of God as the most efficient of all means of grace—more truly and efficaciously means of saving grace than all other ordinances of the church” (p. 693)

R. L. Dabney

The Reformed are sticklers for advocating that the only means of grace are Word and Sacrament. However, I must say that I appreciate what Wolfe and before him Dabney were communicating. There can be no doubt that place and people having been ornamented by the Gospel can indeed evoke in us a great depth of thankfulness to God for bringing those Christian people and those grounds which are now hallowed in our thinking into our lives.

II.) “Those who exhibit a preference for foreigners have disordered loves — a condition we can call xenophilia, or the love of foreigners. Its conjoined condition is what Roger Scruton called ‘oikophobia,’ or the fear of home and familiarity.”

Dr. Stephen Wolfe

The Case for Christian Nationalism — p. 150 / FN 37

Here we discover that the modern Christian Church, exceptions notwithstanding, is now a institution characterized by xenophilia. The contemporary White Church in the West is all hot to trot to have minorities in their midst seemingly thinking that to have such means that they are “really holy now.” What else can this be called except xenophilia?

On this same score, Scruton was exactly right with his label “oikophobia.” White Christians in our mega-churches are characterized by their hatred of their own ethnic people. Indeed, it has gotten so bad that it really is the case now that the stranger and alien are so loved and there is such fear of racial kin that the stranger and alien are in point of fact the new kin for these whom Wolfe and Scruton are describing. If that observation is indeed true it teaches us that “Kinism” is an inescapable categoriy.

III.) “Non-Christians living among us are entitled to justice, peace, and safety, but they are not entitled to political equality, nor do they have the right to deny the people of God their right to order civil institutions to God and their complete good.”

Dr. Stephen Wolfe

The Case for Christian Nationalism — p. 346

 

That will make the R2K crowd pee their pants.

IV.) “Spiritual unity is inadequate for formal ecclesial unity.”

Dr. Stephen Wolfe

The Case for Christian Nationalism

I agree 100% but I would bet my retirement fund that 90% of conservative clergy would viciously disagree with that quote.

Dr. Wolfe’s point here is, I believe, that people from different cultures, races, and/or classes can indeed be one in Christ but still not be able to have formal ecclesial unity. As an obvious example, imagine a group of Reformed Hmong people here in the states trying to establish formal ecclesial unity with a group of Reformed Mexicans. The very real spiritual unity would not overcome the very real cultural differences. This reality is not to diminish the reality that each people are indeed Christian through and through. It is merely to recognize that cultures and peoples differ enough to make the kind of difference that would not allow formal ecclesial unity.

V.) “It is time to recognize that the theonomists were right about the direction of Reformed political theology as it manifested itself in the late 20th century up to today.”

Dr. Stephen Wolfe

The Case for Christian Nationalism — p. 270

Damn straight we were right and we continue to be right about the futility of Dr. Wolfe’s natural law project.

Here is one of my conclusion on Wolfe’s “The Case for Christian Nationalism.” Wolfe, as a Natural Law theorist, is giving a rejoinder to the Natural Law theorists who are R2K. This discussion is a in house discussion between those who champion Natural Law.
Presuppositionalists will be dissatisfied with both parties, though as it pertains to the contest between Wolfe’s theories and R2K’s theories we are clearly praying that Wolfe wins out.