I used to be Protestant. Its teachings are what helped school me away from atheism and bring me much closer to the light of Christ than I’d been since I was a Catholic-church-going girl in my youth.
You know, small children really do have such a faithful and pure belief in God, that makes us adults seem so spiritually bankrupt. We overthink. We second guess. We reason too much and trust too little. We become jaded by this world, and that can seep over into our walk with Christ.
But this doesn’t mean that adult Christians shouldn’t be resisting evil when it’s propagated by their perceived spiritual authorities. It doesn’t mean that they should conform to every pulpit-pushed notion and then use out-of-context Scripture as a bludgeon against all who dare to question. Case in point: critical race theory (CRT) preached as the Gospel.
And most informed conservative Protestants know of these wolves in the sheep’s clothing. They know that Ameridox Christianity is just brimming with charlatans and that some brave folks are trying their best to hold these tricksters to account for their extra-biblical positions. Consider this online petition demanding that Malcom Yarnell, professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, must “resign to install more diverse leadership” within the Southern Baptist Convention due to his recent social-justice tweet.
It’s such brilliant optics on the part of the petition creator, don’t ya think? By demanding that Yarnell “immediately vacate his position at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary to be replaced by a non-Anglo male candidate,” the politically incorrect faithful are insisting that the virtue-signaling professor take a good dose of his own bad medicine.
This creeping-then but now in-your-face anti-whiteness and nonsensical POC adulation is one of the reasons I fled Protestantism. As is always the devolution of this racist scheme, it begins with demeaning and banning a Southern symbol, then continues to grow in skulduggery and scope, and finally ends in unabashed black privilege and white-hot hatred for whites. In other words, it’s about power.
Conservative evangelicals must understand the roots of the cancer known as CRT. They must be well-versed in the history of the Frankfurt School and know about the secular-humanists who concocted this revolutionary cultural Marxism which is tearing apart any vestige of cohesion that remains, both in our churches and in society as a whole.
And that they do this in the name of the Cross, supposedly for the sake of Jesus, is simply blasphemous. At least atheist leftists are honest about their hate for Jesus. Today’s Pharisees are less concerned with eternal life for all mankind, and more concerned with manifesting hell on earth. They are either voluntary or involuntary tools for the destruction of God.
Mainline American Christianity is to the tipping point so much so that it’s really not a matter of not getting fooled by the evil-doers, but rather a matter of assuming that nearly everything once good and pure has become corrupt. It’s the powers that be who should have the burden of proof.
Take CRU.
I’ve had my doubts about the college ministry for some time. I was asked by a smart friend of seven years to financially support her family’s pending CRU mission. So, my husband and I had her and her devout family over for supper when they were trying to raise funds for a move and full-time ministry. We asked pointed questions and listened intently to their heartfelt answers.
(I already had my suspicions, though, having had conversations with another CRU-mom acquaintance and hearing her “white privilege” talk and use of other critical-theory buzzwords, and her framing with “social justice” precepts nearly everything she talked about.) But after honest and sometimes uncomfortable inquiry with our CRU-in-training friends, it became crystal clear that we could absolutely not provide charity to a radical and revolutionary movement veiled in love. It was weird and awkward to say no, but it was a decision made in true love of both my faith and my family.
So, I say you keep protesting the “reformers,” Protestants. Say no. Protest through word and deed. Nail your own 95 Theses on the church door. Yell from the rooftops that race hustlers are selling CRT indulgences to both duped white and black Christians. And fervently support those who are loudly bucking the PC heresies of these self-proclaimed Protestant popes.
Protest until you’re blue in the face. Maybe then they’ll stop hating you for being white. It’s time to the out-reform the critical-race reformers and smash their culture-destroying, faith-diminishing activism. It’s time to go Martin Luther on their asses.
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I’m glad you have Jon Harriss’s ‘Conversations that Matter’ video posted above. He has chomped down in to this issue like a Bit bull and he ain’t lettin’ go. I met him at an Abbeville Institute summer school a couple of years ago before he really started to blossom. If this is a topic you follow, he’s the man in the know and he ain’t scared to do the dirty work..
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Pauly,
Indeed, Conversations that Matter is a great. I’ve been following Jon Harris’ efforts through social media since probably the spring or early summer. He has balls of steel, and I like all that I’ve seen and read of his. I was especially pleased when I discovered his post called The “Civil War” Was Not About Slavery, so I’m not surprised he’s an Abbeville guy. No wonder I like him so much!
There is nothing “new” about church-members and church-goer’s who pay more attention to various secular concerns and various social pressures than they do to Christian theology. Such has been the case for the whole history of Protestantism and,probably,the whole history of the Christian religion. People belonged to churches so that they could “get something” – whether social acceptance in the local community,or employment,or business customers,or advantageous friendships,or “good” marriages,or freedom from prosecution at the hands of the church-police and the church-courts – not to mention the possibility of “everlasting life” and an array of everlasting Heavenly benefits. There’s nothing at all “new” about stuff like this. The “genuine article” is – and always has been – very much something of a rarity.
If you’re saying that some people struggle with their Christian faith, yep, nothing new there. That’s why we Orthodox look to the saints and their modeling of devotion and sacrifice, each in his or her own unique way.
But what is new is that the views of mainline Christian leaders (and even some high-church hierarchs) is that the secular is akin to God. They are pushing cultural Marxism as dogma. That is a very new thing. That is ideology, not theology.
The continuation of the notion of Protestant protesting, I feel, leads the masses further and further away from THE truth, in order to lead the masses toward “what someone else believes to be THEIR truth.” 44,000 plus various Protestant denominations show that. I do agree that being Protestant for a time in my life did keep me close to Christ. As for my belief system, it created only more questions than answers. Just my thoughts on my own life experiences.
You are correct when the protesting is aimed at watering down the Gospel and replacing it with The Social Gospel, which was an invention of late-19th and early-20th century Protestants. “Their truth” is indeed a fluid thing. But if someone is going to be a Protestant and a conservative, tradition-leaning person, my question is: why do what your “leaders” say now? Why listen to the sneaky and conniving leftists who have taken over your denomination or your church? I mean, Protestants are supposed to be opposed to church hierarchy anyway, right? If every man is his own pope, who needs the evil-doers within SBC? They’re too busy coddling “people of color” and anti-biblical feminists and now trans people with “pronoun hospitality.” Seriously, JD Greear should be run out on a rail, and rightfully angry Protestants should be the ones to do it. I’m trying to reach these Protestants who are compelled by truth, not the charlatans who are trying to redefine it.
But all this brings me to your spiritual point. It was the political madness and the lacking foundations of Church tradition, apostolic history, and consistent dogma that made me flee Protestant and run right into the arms of Orthodoxy. Even the high-church Protestantism that does have liturgy seems to continually be watering it down, drip by drip, PC issue by PC issue. It was my very own protesting that helped me come to understand that there is no fixing a broken institution. Eventually, all denominations in America will not only have female pastors, but they will be flying rainbow flags and demoting white people just by virtue of their skin color and men by virtue of their private parts and heterosexuals by virtue of their not participating in sodomy. There is nothing to stop it.
But for now, I want the conservative Protestants to protest – to make it as painful for the “reformers” as possible. Some of these frustrated souls may even find their way to Orthodoxy, God willing, as did I and many folks in my parish (which is comprised mostly of converts from Protestantism). And for those people of good will who don’t leave, they must resist. This is article is my call to them – people like my mother in-law who will never leave Methodism, even though she says Methodism left her, as she’s sickened by the worldly turn of her beloved denomination.
Moreover, even in our post-Christian society, Protestantism still has sway, since they do make up the majority of Christians in America. So, if good Christians don’t fight “social justice” and godlessness in their churches, why should we expect them to fight it in our “culture”?
I hope this makes sense. Thanks so much for your comments, Anne, and welcome to the DM family!
Thank you! It’s refreshing, enlightening and all those great words to read posts that I agree with fully. Orthodoxy is a beautiful lifestyle within our beautiful faith. As I saw in a meme a while ago..that still makes me giggle…”Orthodoxy…kicking it old school since 33 AD.” I have faith in what is real. Not what has been broken apart immeasurable times and watered down to accommodate those who do not want to adhere to the true faith.
Lord, Have mercy!!
And keep telling the truth!
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