There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28)
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34-35)
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: “Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31)
You have heard that it was said, “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I tell
you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you… (Matthew 5:43-44)
One of the issues in our society is Critical Race Theory (CRT.) According
to Rebecca Bodenheimer, “Critical race
theory (CRT) is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on
one's social standing. It arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two
decades since the Civil Rights Movement and associated legislation, racial inequality had been
solved and affirmative action was no longer necessary.”[1] When
others have criticized the extent to which this theory is being pushed on
society, they have been told that CRT is “just” a response to the blindness of some
members of society. It’s not a threat to anyone if we would just do our work
of awakening ourselves to all the ways that white people are racist.
And
therein lies the problem. Because white people are in the majority, and
supposedly hold power over everything, only white people can be racist. No
matter how much people of color hate white people, they cannot be racist, because
they are the oppressed, and all white people are the oppressors, period.
Keeping
all of that in mind, consider what has been said in this blog about devils, ideas,
and sin, and place today’s verse in the context of those considerations. God calls
us to love one another and to reject the notion that skin color, gender, or
social class separates us from one another. Sin teaches us to separate
ourselves by color, gender, and social class.
CRT
stands in judgment of all white people, proclaiming them to be guilty of a sin
(discrimination,) not because they have been observed to do something unkind to
someone but on the basis of the color of their skin. It is a sin for which
they cannot be forgiven, but are forever guilty even if they do nothing discriminatory.
And, CRT teaches that people of color are right to fear, hate, separate themselves
from and punish white people as irredeemable and unforgivable.
CRT
is not heaven-sent to correct God’s children. It divides forever, discriminates
forever, condemns forever, and teaches hatred forever all on the basis of the
color of one’s skin. It is not from heaven but from the pits of hell. This
does not mean that there is no work to do with regard to our relationships with
one another. There will always be the debt of love which we owe, but the answer
is to come together, to forgive and to love – not to stand with the Accuser
against one another.
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