Reputation of Critical Race Theory and Its Seemingly Absurd Prism Claim

A political theory and those ignorant enough to espouse it stands behind the racial unrest rocking the nation. It employs expressions like “systemic racism” to describe the nation’s attitude toward racial relationships. The theory is called Critical Race Theory (CRT). It has long been nurtured in academia. Its central thesis makes the major groupings in which humankind is divided based on physical characteristics or shared ancestry (race/ethnicity), the prism through which all aspects of life must be viewed. As such, its promoters seek to re-write history, economics, sociology, and other sciences to accommodate its Marxist focus. The theory destroys the possibility of ethnic cohesion and peace. Thus, all Americans who love their country should reject Critical Race Theory as an attempt to censure, even condemn the nation and its history. The Church should also reject the theory because it is contrary to its teaching.

There is nothing original about this foundational aspect of CRT. Its cheapjack hawkers make race the foundations of class struggle, dividing the country into oppressors and oppressed based on skin color. Thus, the theory creates and encourages the conditions for conflict, unrest, and bitterness. It allows for no peaceful racial coexistence. This theory is wrong because the Word of God teaches that society should live in social harmony, not conflict. Society is not made up of two intrinsically pernicious classifications. Rather, it is formed by an enriching variety of groups that, united in the same worship of God, give rise to a congenial Christian civilization. Critical Race Theory holds that race is the sole prism through which history, economics, sociology, science, and all aspects of life must be seen. Its promoters allow for no other explanation on how society works and always frame the debate to favor their class-struggle narrative. While race may be a prism to see reality, it can never be the prism. Other modern theories have sadly made similar untrue claims. For Marxism, it was an economic prism. For Freud, sexuality was the prism. No specific pure discipline can assert a monopolizing spin or frame of reference.