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Home/Biblical and Theological/The Gravest Danger of Critical Race Theory for Christians

The Gravest Danger of Critical Race Theory for Christians

Reality is, quite literally, whatever one perceives it to be.

Written by Greg Smith | Tuesday, August 17, 2021

The mere suggestion that a given proposition or circumstance be examined with clear evidence, analyzed by reason as has been decreed by Almighty God, is reviled as “white supremacy.” Instead, we are told that one’s “lived experience” interpreted through “standpoint epistemology”…is the standard by which truth is established.

 

Unless somebody has been living under a rock, by now everyone has heard the term critical race theory, or CRT, though I’ve been discussing it with people in my circle for five–or maybe six–years.

The purpose of this piece is not to give a detailed exposition of CRT. It will establish what I believe to be its most foundational and dangerous component. The one that gives birth to and governs all the rest.

Critical race theory is a subset of critical theory, which is itself a subset of postmodernism which was formed out of and in response to previous secular philosophical systems in France in the early to mid 20th century.

Critical race theory is a direct full-frontal assault upon the image and likeness of God in which man was created.

Let me explain. A major component of the image and likeness of God, in which man was created, are his powers of high intellect and analytical reason. Moral agency and the ability of complex communication flow from those and are other such components, but we are going to concentrate here on intellect and analytical reason.

We know that man’s powers of high intellect and analytical reason are major components of the image and likeness of God because we see in His scriptures that God Himself is eternally possessed in His own being and nature of uniquely divine powers of high intellect and analytical reason and man is the only one of His creatures who has the ability to function with similar, but limited versions of these powers. No other of God’s creatures are equipped to invent the wheel, the cotton gin, or the transistor for instance.

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