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“Jesus articulated the primary
commandments: love God with
your heart, soul, mind and strength,
and love your neighbor as yourself,”
[Hamilton] concluded. “We don’t
need these anti-Christ, unbiblical
tools to teach us how to love
our neighbors as ourselves—the
scripture is sufficient for that.” 3
In “The Stain of Albert Mohler”
documentary, Tom Buck, a SBC pastor
who contested Resolution 9 at the SBC
convention last June, noted that Resolu-
tion 9 acknowledges that Critical Race
Theory and Intersectionality 4 alone were
insufficient to diagnose and redress the
root causes of the social ills they identified.
Furthermore, Buck stated:
Critical Race Theory and
Intersectionality are . . . not merely
insufficient, they’re incapable of
diagnosing man’s problem and
incompatible with the biblical
Gospel. Critical Race Theory is
based upon Marxism, a godless
intellectual foundation, and both
include a praxis contradictory to the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. These views
do not complement the Gospel;
they completely contradict it. 5
In his rebuttal statements against
Resolution 9, Buck quoted Colossians
2:8, then added:
When it came to worldly philosophy
and human tradition, Paul did not
tell the Colossians to adopt or adapt
but to abandon. 6
One SBC pastor announced, after SBC
adopted Resolution 9, that his church was
withdrawing from the SBC:
At the last Southern Baptist
Convention, the messengers from
the churches voted to include
VOLUME 8—NO. 1
3
Critical Race Theory and
Intersectionality as tools to help us
interpret the Bible. Now if you don’t
know what Critical Race Theory
and Intersectionality mean, among
other things, it is the notion that if
you’re born white, you’re already a
racist; it doesn’t matter what you feel
or how you act. You’re just a racist.
All of the radical liberal progressive
thought is in those terms in order to
appease the culture and get along. 7
Abraham Hamilton III, who has a pod-
cast on American Family Radio devoted
to exposing the dangers of Critical Race
Theory, explained how some of these social
justice “theories” have entered the church:
School, coming out of the the left-
wing of Marxism in Europe, was
basically, and this is what is key,
was a repudiation of consensual
politics. So [in] this critical theory
and all that came out of this horror,
Marxism emerged from the idea that
democratic politics won’t work. It’s
not going to get to revolution. It’s
not going to get to justice; therefore,
there has to be a confrontation all
the way down to the foundation,
and that’s the critical means, taking
it apart. And so they wanted to blow
up the world basically ideologically.
Basically it was a matter of identifying
all the structures of authority and of
order in society as repressive. 10
And yet, while Mohler condemned
Critical Theory in the above quote, as the
documentary shows through live footage
Mohler has actually embraced CRT which
is an offshoot of Critical Theory.
Hamilton
The way it’s getting into the
church, you have people presenting
these ideas—Critical Race Theory
and other things—as something
that they are not. . . . They’re
not adhering to the traditional
definitions and applications [so
they can] get the foot in the door—
and then once the foot is in the
door, the applications return to the
original definitions. 8
The documentary identifies Albert
Mohler (president of Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary) as one of the main
proponents for bringing CRT into the
SBC. It first shows Mohler addressing a
group from a previous time and saying:
Critical Theory 9 of the Frankfurt
Mohler
Critical Theory and Critical Race
Theory are basically “cultural Marxism.”
The documentary gives this definition of
cultural Marxism:
Cultural Marxism is a broad term
which refers to the advocacy and
application of critical theory and
more generally to the cultural,
political, and academic influence
of certain elements within the
contemporary Left. . . . is the
creation of interdisciplinary theories
that might serve as instruments of
social transformation. . . .
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