For decades the American public has witnessed liberal denominations water down the gospel and embrace far-left ideologies. That is why a Sunday morning sermon at a liberal church might feature a lesbian pastor warning about climate change or praising abortion and Planned Parenthood.
Viewing the issue much like a virus, “Point of View” radio host Kerby Anderson says wokeness is no longer a foreign topic that can be dismissed as some wacky issue in an far-away church.
“It started primarily in some of the liberal churches,” he tells AFN, “but even churches we would consider to be evangelical churches, you’re starting to hear some of these woke ideas.”
One headline-grabbing example occurred in 2019, when messengers for the Southern Baptist Convention voted for a resolution that praised Critical Race Theory rather than denounce it as “unbiblical” as the original document intended. That statement, known as Resolution 9, hit the convention floor after numerous revisions. In the final draft, the Marxist-based Critical Race Theory was described as an “analytical tool” that can be used to address racism and race relations inside the walls of the church.
The re-wording and passage of Resolution 9 found few defenders on either side. Within the SBC, some black pastors denounced the watered-down version of Resolution 9 because it appeared white SBC members were denying that “systemic racism” exists. Some pastors and leaders were angered the language was changed at all.
Three years later, the public has witnessed the anti-white, Marxist-based theory get preached like the gospel in corporate cubicles, elementary school classrooms, and the U.S. armed forces, where terms such as “white privilege” and “oppressor” are common.
The term “systemic racism” that was obscure to many in 2019 is now understood to be a tenet of CRT, too, since it claims society is set up by whites to maintain power over minorities.
“The whole idea of wokeness has become a theology,” Anderson says. “It almost has its own — if you will — eschatology, future things. It is almost its whole view of sin and salvation, and the rest.”
That is certainly true for Critical Race Theory itself, which suggests that white people cannot change their racism but they can admit to it and promise to address it. In other words, they become “woke.”
“We don’t want to say that individuals can never change because once they are labeled as an oppressor, there’s really no grace,” Anderson says. “There’s no ability for you to provide forgiveness to an individual or the rest.”
The Holy Bible addresses these (Democrat) cult churches.
Matthew 7:15-16
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them.
John 8:42-47
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
Just another attempt at Men to play god and force good people to sanctify the unsanctifiable.
Sanctify: – “ set apart as or declare holy; consecrate”
Consecrate – “make or declare (something, typically a church) sacred; dedicate formally to a religious or divine purpose.”
If you consider secular Socialism as a religion itself,,, the worship of fallible men of consumption who try to play god, over the real infallible creator who IS God, where their definition of holy is redefined as an ideology full of holes and inaccuracies’, good luck with that one. Reality will eventually come to embarrass you, right after your confusion arrives to debase you.
Critical race theory and systemic racism! I think all schools should teach that liberals are racist and that all liberals are “systemically racist”.
THE proof is everywhere, if you are willing to look!
By their own words they condemn their argument. “white people cannot change their racism but they can admit to it and promise to address it”
If it cannot be changed, then what’s the point of addressing it? Their whole argument rests on an “I win; you lose” ideology without room for rebuttal. Only people with the lowest of IQ’s could possibly buy into this. They’re triggered into thinking they’re joining a movement based on profound truth that will better the world. As P. T. Barnum said……..
Add to that, every time i’ve heard of lists of the top ten or top twenty MOST RACIST NATIONS out there.. THE US rarely if ever, MAKES that list.. You know who often makes it? SEVERAL PLACES IN AFRICA, the mid east, and ASIA..
AREAS where whites certainly are not in power, let alone anywhere close to being the majority.. BLACKS OR ASIANS or muslims are… SO WHERE are the calls about THEM BEING Systemically racist!?