Many well meaning Christians are under the impression that diversity is a good thing. It is not. It is not a bad thing either; it just is. In other words, just because a certain population is diverse in terms of skin color or nationality doesn’t make it morally better than another population that is not. Diversity is not a moral category. Yet many of those well meaning Christians have been persuaded to believe diverse is better than not diverse, and they don’t realize it is because of the influence of cultural Marxism, not the Bible. The diversity cat is now out of the bag with the unfortunate ascendance of critical race theory (CRT) that treats skin pigment as something moral and not a basic fact of existence. It’s obvious that the pushers of CRT aren’t interested in diversity at all. That’s just the Trojan Horse to get CRT to take over the culture.

If you’re not familiar with that phrase or what it means, it seems to be all over the place now, and not just in academia where it was given birth. It is a Marxist cancer on the health of the body politic, and Christians must condemn and reject it in the strongest terms. Part of that rejection is to never fall into the diversity trap. I recently read a terrific and concise explanation of CRT in a recent issue of Hillsdale’s Imprimis: “Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It.”

In explaining critical race theory, it helps to begin with a brief history of Marxism. Originally, the Marxist Left built its political program on the theory of class conflict. Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power between capitalists and workers. The solution to that imbalance, according to Marx, was revolution: the workers would eventually gain consciousness of their plight, seize the means of production, overthrow the capitalist class, and usher in a new socialist society.

This didn’t work so well in the 20th century with north of 100 million people killed in the name of Marx. By the 1960s Marxist intellectuals began to acknowledge this, but weren’t about to give up their Utopian dreams.

But rather than abandon their Leftist political project, Marxist scholars in the West simply adapted their revolutionary theory to the social and racial unrest of the 1960s. Abandoning Marx’s economic dialectic of capitalists and workers, they substituted race for class and sought to create a revolutionary coalition of the dispossessed based on racial and ethnic categories.

The academic discipline was fully formulated in the 1990s, and “built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism.” It has now completely escaped the confines of the university because all those students whose parents didn’t know any better and failed to teach them the truth, were brainwashed by these lies, and are now running much of American culture. The author points out that this movement tries to gain legitimacy with ignorant people by using appealing words such as “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion,” and “culturally responsive teaching.” They realized that selling a new form of Marxism would have been a tough sell, so they are basically putting lipstick on the pig, and an ugly pig it is.

Too many of the well meaning Christians I mentioned above don’t understand that these words and phrases, including “diversity,” can’t be redeemed, can’t be utilized without their cultural, Marxist baggage. It just isn’t possible. When you see them used among people who profess to be Christians, you can be sure they embrace something now called “progressive” Christianity, the old liberal Christianity of the 20th century dressed up in Marxist garb for the 21st. Biblical Christians need to stick with Martin Luther King who famously and rightly said that people should be judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.

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