WORLDVIEW WAR:
CRITICAL THEORY IS A LENS
THROUGH WHICH MANY AMERICANS
NOW VIEW SOCIETY AND
HUMAN FREEDOM
CRITICAL THEORY
VS.
CHRISTIANITY
By Dr. Christian Overman
IF YOU ARE SEEING AND HEARING WHAT I AM,
YOU ARE ASKING YOURSELF HOW IN THE WORLD
WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY AT
SUCH BREATHTAKING SPEED.
“Drag Queen Story Hour” is now part of elementary
schools and public libraries, where men dress in women’s
clothing and read homosexual-themed books to chil-
dren. This, according to the Drag Queen Story Hour
website, “captures the imagination and play of the gender
fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive,
and unabashedly queer role models.” 1
K-12 schools now have policies such as this one enact-
ed by the Massachusetts Department of Education:
“Some students may feel uncomfortable with a transgen-
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der student using the same sex-segregated restroom, locker
room or changing facility. This discomfort is not a reason
to deny access to the transgender student.” 2
Gender identity is one of the many topics educators
have absorbed from secularized culture. Other areas
have to do with “race” and “class” (two words that are
not part of my vocabulary).
For example, a senior vice president of a conservative
theological seminary suggested that a “white” Christian’s
attitudes about race are “deeply informed by whiteness.”
Apparently because he is white, he asserted: “I am a
racist, and I’m going to struggle with racism and white
supremacy until the day I die and get my glorified body.” 3
Really? What’s going on here?
Various streams of twentieth-century thought have
merged into a common flood as wide as the Mississip-
pi River. Streams of thought such as Postmodernism,
Deconstructionism, Dialectical Materialism, and polit-
ical correctness have found their common denominator
in an overarching idea called Critical Theory.