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The Amazon blurb says that:

“White people should be less white.”
“Whiteness is white supremacy.”
“Silence is violence.”
“You can never overcome your racism.”

This white person decided to obey the woke rule: White people should be less white

You’ve heard these baffling views—but do you know where they come from?

The “wokeness” that emerged from the social unrest of 2020 has swept through schools, businesses, and even sports. Driven by the radical ideologies of Critical Race Theory and intersectionality, it has destabilized public and private life—including the Church.

Driven by the radical ideologies of Critical Race Theory and intersectionality, wokeness has destabilized public and private life—including the Church

Many evangelicals have joined the crusade. Gripped by a desire for justice and rightly grieved by past evils like slavery, many pastors are preaching the woke gospel—identifying “whiteness” (an imaginary concept) with “white supremacy,” calling bewildered Christians to repent of their supposed guilt for the sins of past generations.

Gripped by a desire for justice and rightly grieved by past evils like slavery, many pastors are preaching the woke gospel—calling bewildered Christians to repent of their supposed guilt for the sins of past generations

But as theologian Owen Strachan makes clear, this is not true justice, nor is it true Christianity. While wokeness employs biblical vocabulary and concepts, it is an alternative religion, far from Christianity in both its methods and its fruit. A potent blend of racism, paganism, and grievance, wokeness encourages “partiality” and undermines the unifying work of the Holy Spirit. It is not simply not the Gospel; it is anti-Gospel.

As Strachan traces the origins of wokeness, lays out its premises, and follows them to their logical conclusions, the contrast of that false faith with the Word of God stands out unmistakably. This succinct but groundbreaking work reveals that wokeness, like other heresies, is not really new. Nor is the antidote: Christ crucified for us.

This succinct but groundbreaking work reveals that wokeness, like other heresies, is not really new. Nor is the antidote: Christ crucified for us

John MacArthur in the Foreward, says "According to CRT, every major aspect of our culture is riddled with racism. The divisive effects of such a worldview are now obvious. CRT has not helped, much less healed, social strife and ethnic divisions. It has made those problems exponentially worse. And perceptive people have noticed. In the realms of politics and education, CRT is finally being held up to critical scrutiny by a few articulate and influential academicians and thought leaders. Unfortunately, evangelicals—always late to every party—are enthusiastically jumping on another cultural bandwagon just as its wheels are about to come off. As an “analytical tool,” CRT has no more use than a wrecking ball. It can demolish core social structures and leave society itself in ruins, but it cannot clean up the mess it leaves, much less build anything worthwhile.

CRT has no more use than a wrecking ball. It can demolish core social structures and leave society itself in ruins, but it cannot clean up the mess it leaves, much less build anything worthwhile

"In many pulpits across the evangelical movement, Gospel language is being supplanted by socialist rhetoric. It is especially frustrating that this is happening among formerly conservative evangelicals—even while observant critics in the secular realm have begun to see and point out the destructive tendencies of CRT. Some of the keenest minds in the academic world have begun to marshal their energies (using both scholarship and satire) to expose the dangerous fallacies of the system. Critical Race Theorists have argued that math education is inherently racist, that the very notion of objective truth is rooted in white supremacy, and that Western values—moral standards, in particular, are tools of oppression."

Critical Race Theorists have argued that math education is inherently racist, that the very notion of objective truth is rooted in white supremacy

"The answer to the problems that ail us . . . is not wokefulness. It is biblical truth. . . . For its unbiblical teaching and its ungodly violence, Black Lives Matter and woke activism must be rejected—by Christians, certainly, and by any citizen besides. . . . Wokeness in general has electrified American and Western culture and made them zones of resentment, perpetual guilt, and grave danger. . . . In this climate, there are in fact so many traps set by wokeness that you are caught no matter which way you turn. . . . Wokeness offers liberation, but it entraps. It speaks the tones of justice, but it causes injustice. . . . Wokeness . . . is many things but it is not sound thinking."

For its unbiblical teaching and its ungodly violence, Black Lives Matter and woke activism must be rejected—by Christians, certainly, and by any citizen besides

Marx said everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed. CRT says the same. This kind of thinking is called reductionism. You're either racist or antiracist. You're either x or non-x. No exceptions. Life is full of subtleties and gradations and degrees. Most things are neither black nor white: they're grey. But not for Marx, CRT, or woke people.

Karl Marx gave us the plan to end 100,000,000 human lives, which happened in the middle of last century—we'd bet his mama was SO proud! Yet this is the same Marxist baloney many of our professors teach, ensuring that our 21st century societies end not with a whimper but a bang

"Theologian Owen Strachan will discuss how pastors preaching about white supremacy and collective guilt are undermining the unifying message of Christianity. He will make clear that not only is Critical Race Theory not the Gospel, it is anti-Gospel: it divides us from others, it foments pride, bitterness, and hatred, and perhaps most importantly of all, it reworks the nature of sin to make it structural instead of personal. This reworks the "good news" of Christianity, no small thing. But Strachan's message is ultimately one of hope: by his grace, Christ calls Christians to be salt and light. Strachan will offer concrete guidance on the role we all can play in fighting injustice while at the same time rejecting woke utopianism in our churches, and in broader institutions as well." (Source: Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel—and the Way to Stop It, Katharine Cornell Gorka, heritage)

Not only is Critical Race Theory not the Gospel, it is anti-Gospel

"But I think it's important to understand how Christian leaders feel about this book. Dr. Wayne Grudem, who's a distinguished research professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary, and also a great friend of mine wrote, "This is an alarming and remarkably insightful book. It shows how wokeness is a deeply anti-Christian movement that even today is increasing racial divisiveness, anger, resentment, and hostility, because it wrongly evaluates people based on the color of their skin, rather than who they are as unique individual members of the worldwide human race. . . . What worries me is what's going on in the public schools, where children are taught to hate their country and to hate each other. It doesn't bring people together, it drives them apart. . . . We want our children to be thankful for the good elements of America and to preserve what we can of this public order. But wokeness says no, pick up a Molotov cocktail and throw it through a shop glass window and burn America down. They did so a year ago in the streets of one city after another in this country, Black Lives Matter, Antifa related movements. And they're doing so in the classroom. They're taking a Molotov cocktail to American history and training our children as you said, to despise this country. And honestly, Dr. Dobson, I believe it's evil. I believe it's satanic, an attack that we should reject. [It's basic Marxism] What you need to address that is really the Marxist tool of the oppressor and the oppressed. . . . If you go back to Karl Marx and you look at Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto with Engels, you see that Marx and Engels hated God, and then hated the natural order that God had made. They despised the family. They wanted to detonate creation order. . . . And what they want to do is they want to re-educate American youth in a leftist Marxist woke kind of way. And if they can do that, then their victory will be complete. The good news is that there are many of us in the church of the Lord, Jesus Christ, who are not bowing the knee to bail. We never will. We will not acquiesce to Satan." (Source: Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel - Part 1 (Transcript), James Dobson talks with Owen Strachan, dobsonlibrary)

If you look at Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto with Engels, you see that Marx and Engels hated God—'Hey, screw you, God!'

Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel—and the Way to Stop It is a book sounding an alarm—the woke nuts are turning Christianity into radical woke propaganda. For those of us who wish to preserve Christianity and avoid the evils of Marxism, this book is a must read. But for those of us who are atheists or simply religiously unaffiliated, Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel—and the Way to Stop It is an insightful book that is a good tool for avoiding the wokeness plague, and that would be of interest to not only conservatives but also liberals that are sick of being called white supremacists and racists just because they happen to be white. Many of us of all political persuasions are observing that the woke crazies and the CRT nuts have obscenely overplayed their hands—and they want out.

Martin Luther King was right: people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin!

Martin Luther King was right: people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin!