Why Marxist Critical Race Theory is the Antithesis of Scripture
CRT was Designed to Attack America's Constitutional Republic and Biblical Foundations
God’s instruction in scripture makes the relationship between all people clear, regardless of ethnic or financial category, and CRT in all its variations violates every aspect of that scriptural instruction and is, therefore, clearly evil from a biblical perspective.
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; (Romans 10:12)
Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, (10) and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— (11) a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all. (12) So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; (13) bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. (14) Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. (Colossians 3:9-14)
The “love” referred to in verse 14 of Colossians 3:14 is agape love or biblical/spiritual love. Agape love may be accompanied by a feeling of affection but essentially it is not a feeling, like being in love. Rather, it is described biblically as something that you do and how you think and act towards another person. Agape love is essentially wanting the highest good for all those God brings into your arena of influence regardless of the cost to you. Moreover, since the highest good for everyone is to come into the closest relationship possible with the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to be the agents of the Holy Spirit to help accomplish that end. However, for us to buy completely into that level of sacrifice we must sincerely believe that as we do selflessly for others that that opens the door for God to do His best for us, and that God can do more for us in a nanosecond than we can do for ourselves in a lifetime of hard work, both here below and for our eternity.
The following scriptures identify the level of commitment to one another God requires:
AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.' (31) "The second is this, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' There is no other commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:30-31)
Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, (2) make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. (3) Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; (4) do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. (Philippians 2:1-4)
As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God (1 Peter 4:10)
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor. (Romans 12:10)
So then let us pursue the things, which make for peace and the building up of one another. (Romans 14:19)
Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. (Ephesians 4:25)
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. (Ephesians 4:32)
Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another. (Hebrews 10:24-25)
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8)
Just these few examples of God’s instruction for man’s relationship to one another make it clear that if we live in conformance to scripture, and to Christ’s example of being led, empowered, and convicted by the Holy Spirit that every element of CRT is a meaningless contrivance of man’s flawed wisdom. There is no such thing as “white privilege”2 and “Intersectionality,”3 nor any room for oppression or the oppressed in a Christian worldview. In Christ, we all are considered equal as partiality is a sin. Therefore, everyone has an equal opportunity to receive God’s blessings based on our faithfulness to follow His instruction in scripture. These Marxist concepts expressed in CRT then can only be manifest in a culture devoid of Christianity and devotion to Jesus Christ. Of course, the whole concept of Marxism is a worldview devoid of God and therefore one of atheism. In this worldview, the role of God and the guidance of scripture through the guidance and conviction of the Holy Spirit are inevitably replaced by the laws and demands of the state. In Marxism, the state virtually replaces God.
Marxism, however, does recognize man’s sinful nature in as much as it emphasizes the role of the state to completely define, adjudicate, and enforce justice. Marxist social justice is based on equity, or equality of results rather the biblical equality, which is equality of opportunity. Therefore, it supports the idea of redistribution of wealth. Taking forcefully from those who have and giving to those who have not. However, this can discourage individual effort and innovation, resulting in a lack of incentive for individuals to excel. This can lead to a society where everyone is equal in poverty rather than equal in prosperity.
Marxist nations have always resulted in tyrannical, totalitarian governments that are marked by a prosperous elite, who ruled over an enslaved, poverty-stricken people who had no freedom, individual rights, or personal property. In the case of Stalin and Mao Zedong, tens of millions of innocent civilians became slaves or were murdered or starved to death.
China realized the need for material incentives to increase production during the reorganization of their farming communities from collectives to individual farms 1956-1965. The collectives failed because people wouldn’t work hard when they got the same rewards as those who did not. The implementation of the household responsibility system (HRS) in China was a “market” reform, returning collectivized land to farm households, and allowing households to make farming decisions. The Communist Party was against the idea in principle as it was a departure from Marxist ideology and was more a reflection of the meritorious nature of capitalism. However, in the face of the lack of production they were experiencing under the collective model and faced with increasing population it became a necessity that still works today. So, they devised a system where farmers were rewarded with a percentage of their produce prorated on how much they produced. Incentive is a key aspect of the human psyche that gives rise to creativity and the development of a strong personal work ethic.
History has seemingly lost sight of the impact of the “Protestant Ethic” on Western civilization. There are a myriad of views on this concept philosophically but the central impact was it helped to motivate a preoccupation with hard work and helped attach moral value to economic virtues such as hard work, thriftiness, efficiency, and professionalism. Scripturally these characteristics would be called being a “good steward” over the things God has seen fit to bless us with.
Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, (24) knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. (Colossians 3:23-24)
Scriptures like Colossians 3:23-24 gave rise to the idea that no matter what your avocation if you performed your work diligently as unto the Lord with a spirit of excellence someone washing toilets would receive an equal reward as someone in a high political office or some prestigious position, who worked with equal diligence. This viewpoint provided an incentive that greatly contributed to the principles of capitalism and the free enterprise system that removed untold millions from poverty in the West.
A Brief Historical Perspective of Marxism in America
America’s court system was hugely impacted by Blackstone’s commentaries on the Laws of England, which were based on natural and spiritual principles that are alien to Marxism. This added to the biblical foundation of virtually all of America’s Founders and made America resistant to Marxist influence.
A central part of American law was the importance of personal property. John Adams declared that “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence” and that “Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty.” Of course, under Marxism the state owns everything and the citizens own nothing. (Reference: https://wallbuilders.com/private-property-rights-resolution/)
However, through the Kremlin’s infiltration of our society and our educational system after WWII, today Marxism has now become a major factor of influence for the last two generations, especially in our university systems. The two-fold strategy of the propaganda was first to remove any negatives concerning Marxism/Communism from all textbooks and course material that could reveal its failures and inhuman history. Secondly, they distorted American history to denigrate our founders and make it seem like America’s prosperity was completely achieved through slavery and that America always was and still is systemically racist, despite the truth that America has done more to eliminate worldwide slavery than any nation on earth. They completely ignore that 360,000 predominantly white Union soldiers died in the Civil War to eliminate slavery in America. Moreover, the liberal Democrats want to ignore that the Confederates were predominantly Democrats. It was the Democrats that gave rise to the KKK, voted against the legislation that emancipated the slaves, and later voted against giving dark-skinned citizens voting rights.
This Kremlin began by infiltrating our educational system with a program of propaganda and indoctrination which began shortly after WWII and according to a Russian KGB defector was already quite successful by 1985.
In 1985 Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, a KGB defector from the Soviet Union, gave an interview with G. Edward Griffin which laid out the Soviet’s strategy to indoctrinate and destabilize America. He indicated that there was a long-term plan put in play by Russia to defeat America through a four-staged strategy of psychological warfare and indoctrination. It’s a long game that takes decades to achieve but in 1985 it had already surpassed the Kremlin’s wildest expectations. The reader can view this interview at
Stage 1: Demoralization
The first stage was Demoralization. Uri said it could take 20 years to accomplish this. Yet in 1985 he indicated that the strategy had been more effective than the Russian developer’s wildest hopes. The impact is easy to see when you realize that you could not say “damn” on television in 1950 and then see what kind of nudity and immorality is available in every media today. Out-of-wedlock pregnancy used to be a terrible ignominy characterized by disgrace and shame and today it is totally commonplace and over 40% of American babies are born to unwed mothers.
Violent crime was increasing yearly in America at about the rate of population growth throughout the 1900s, at around 3%. However, when the highest court in the land took prayer out of our public schools in 1962, which violated a large number of Supreme Court precedents set since 1776, violent crime took a radical change for the worse. Between 1962 and 1986 violent crime increased 544%. This was documented in a book by David Barton entitled “America: To Pray or Not to Pray,” printed by Wallbuilder Press, copyright first in 1988. The book also presented graphs of the change in topics like unwed pregnancies and STDs in school-age children. Subsequent, to that bill passing every one of these negative statistics increased exponentially. It was almost like we told God He wasn’t welcome in our educational system and He gave us and it over to our own devices.
Stage 2: Destabilization
The second stage was Destabilization and that’s where CRT, Intersectionality, and Social Justice Theology come into play to generate division, hatred, and racism. The proof of the influence this has had on our society at large is that the Democratic Party has made DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) a directive in every facet of state and federal government from the military to FEMA. Moreover, it has been adopted by a large number of major and smaller corporations. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are organizational frameworks that are presented as seeking to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination based on identity or disability from a CRT perspective. However, in practice, it is simply a technique for promoting people into positions for which they are not qualified and to persecute straight white people, especially white men.
To this end, government agencies, universities, and businesses have instituted DEI training classes for all employees, which are nothing more than indoctrination into the distorted principles of CRT.
According to a remarkable new study by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs that have polluted schools and workplaces in recent years have had the ironic yet predictable tendency to foster both racism and authoritarianism. The 13 researchers who collaborated on the study conducted psychological surveys that measured the impact of “anti-racist” training on the minds of those subjected to it. The results proved troubling:” Across all groupings, instead of reducing bias, they engendered a hostile attribution bias, amplifying perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present, and punitive responses to the imaginary prejudice,” The study results read, “These results highlight the complex and often counterproductive impacts of pedagogical elements and themes prevalent in mainstream DEI training.”
The Soviet Marxist propaganda of CRT does exactly what it was designed by them to do. It creates division and imparts an impression of racism where it doesn’t exist. It also imparts a sense of victimhood and hopelessness that encourages failing individuals to blame their problems on society instead of their own bad choices.
The state of Florida has made teaching or applying DEI or CRT a crime since it violates both the Constitution, the principles on which this nation was founded, and the best interest of Floridians.
https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2024/12/study-how-dei-turned-america-into-a-racial-powder-keg/
Unfortunately, all the Marxist ideologies have taken a severe toll on American society and our culture has never been as polarized and divided as it is today. The open vitriol we all witnessed during the race riots in 2020, the pro-Hamas demonstrations, and the 2024 presidential election is a testimony to the destabilization.
Stage 3: Normalization
The third stage is Normalization and when you realize that our universities, teachers’ unions, much of our public education system, the entire Democratic Party, and a significant number of our major corporations are dominated by these ideologies with the recent emphasis on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) it is clear that it has been normalized to a great degree. Fortunately, the election landslide for President-elect Trump appears to be a mandate from the American people that they are sick and tired of the godless, Marxist “woke” ideology being pushed at every level but especially at the federal level and want to return to the principles on which this nation was founded.
Stage 4: Crisis and Chaos
The fourth stage is Crisis and the chaos and societal breakdown that comes with it. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this including a massive worldwide food shortage which the World Health Organization has been predicting for the last two years. The fact that over a hundred food processing businesses in the U.S. and Canada have coincidently burned down or exploded in the last couple of years might be part of this global elite’s plan. Another crisis that could satisfy this strategy would be WWIII, which some see as being imminent.
The ultimate goal of the Soviets was to convert America’s Constitutional Republic, which the Democrats keep erroneously calling a Democracy, to Communism. However, there are also organized, elite forces in this world arguably centered on the World Economic Forum and the United Nations who are striving for a one-world autocratic government. In either case, American nationalism and our free enterprise system stand as the greatest impediment to all these agendas. Moreover, as Uri Bezmenov stressed, America is the last bastion of freedom in this world, and if America falls so does Western Civilization as we know it.
Dealing with the Deceptive Arguments and Lies of Critical Race Theory Proponents
It is imperative that Christians learn to recognize the techniques employed by the proponents of CRT today as its influence has now infiltrated most of the Christian seminaries. This should have been anticipated in as much as many seminaries are associated with universities and the Marxists have had a major influence in most universities for the last five decades or longer.
As the proponents of CRT and Social Justice infiltrated the Christian seminaries, they developed an argument that took advantage of the fact that justice is an attribute of God and a central biblical theme. So much so that our founders used bible passages to help shape our justice system. In fact, they found that the Bible was the book most quoted and referenced in all the writings and speeches of the Founders. Of all the books the book of Deuteronomy was referred to more than any other book.
Our system of laws however deals primarily with violations of the law outside of the Constitution’s guarantees of liberty, freedom of religion, and free speech. Our laws predominantly rely on the biblical rules of relationship (presented earlier) for our social mores and folkways, the essential or characteristic moral customs and conventions of our communities.
However, the Marxists have developed a devious strategy to distort the intentions of scripture. An expression you will hear over and over in their propaganda is that we have been taking too narrow a view of social justice and that we need to approach it more “holistically” to secure justice for the marginalized in society. In CRT the marginalized people are non-white and those suffering economically due to racism and “white privilege.” So, essentially, they want to make everything about race the primary social distinction, which is the antithesis of scripture.
The term “holistic” refers to the theory that all parts of a whole are intimately interconnected. According to holism (from the Greek “holo,” meaning “whole”), it's a mistake to study just one part, or even multiple parts separately, if we want to understand how they work together. Another word for holistic is “comprehensive.” So, essentially what they are implying is that God did not get sufficiently detailed in scripture to address the social dynamics we experience in society today. If this isn’t heretically enough, they are indicating that somehow man’s wisdom is sufficient to fill in what God left out.
Scripture puts this kind of thinking into perspective:
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, (13) which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. (14) But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. (15) But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. (16) For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:12-16)
The larger problem that this Marxist infiltration of denominations, churches, and seminaries reveals is how far Christianity in America has strayed from the basics of the Gospel. Clearly, this is illustrated in that some mainstream churches are now accepting homosexuality as a valid Christian lifestyle and even ordaining it, as well as regarding abortion on demand as anything other than the murder of the unborn and the spilling of innocent blood, which is one of the seven things scripture says God hates.
The Barna Group just released survey evidence that before the COVID pandemic, only 5% of professing Christians held a Christian worldview, and after the pandemic, it dropped to 4%. These surveys indicated that 40% of professing Christians thought Christ had sinned at some point and 60% believe Christ is not the only way to Heaven.
Although we have more spiritual books in print than at any time in world history the knowledge of the doctrinal truth of the Gospel may quite possibly be at an all-time low in America. The result has been that the vast majority of Christians today do not have the doctrinal discernment to see that the Marxist ideologies of CRT and Social Justice Theology are not only heretical but are intended to compromise the Gospel message and destabilize the mainstream church in this nation. This is well chronicled in the following two videos:
These videos are to some degree spin-offs of the DVD called “Enemies Within the Church,” which is meant to be a wakeup call to all of American Christendom to recognize the very large and coordinated effort coming from the Marxist movement to start releasing Marxist indoctrinated pastors from all major seminaries to infect the American churches with false doctrine. This DVD can be ordered online from Olive Tree Ministries for $12: https://store.olivetreeviews.org/product/enemies-within-the-church/
The bottom line is that if those ministries that have not been infiltrated with these lies do not make a very public statement concerning these heretical teachings before the pastors currently being indoctrinated in the nation’s seminaries start preaching in local churches, we may have passed the point of no return!
In Christ,
Paul