I just wrote the following for Twitter. It turned into post length, so I thought I would post it here too. It is my sketch of what so called critical race theory entails, and why it does not cohere with the Christian reality.

The folly of critical theory is this: it maintains that reality is simply a construct that has been built on a collation of ideas and ideologies that are either good or bad (to oversimplify). Thus, it is possible to *critically* identify these constructs; adjudicate whether they have produced a greater good for the flourishing of society, or not; and if they haven’t, we then ought to deconstruct these ideas, and re-construct a better society with equality and equity for all as its raison d’ etre or end. When this is applied to race, understood as an enlightenment construct, society looks at the apparent inequities that are present in the world, with particular reference, of course, between white and black relations, and believes that it can deconstruct the bad ideas that have produced these inequities and replace them with ideas that will produce an absolute equity and equality between the white and black races.

Maybe how critical race theory is related to Marxism is becoming more apparent to you. Here are two features that bring Marxist ideology and critical race theory together: 1) An atheistic or absolutely naturalist understanding of what humanity is; 2) The idea that the ultimate goal of humanity, and its greatest flourishing, comes from a classless society. The Achilles heel, of course, is that the constant ground and hope in this schema, is the deification of humanity. I.e. That humanity has the wherewithal in its collectivist self to discern what the bad ideas are, and then knows what the good ideas are in order to bring about a classless, non-racist utopia of rest.

The ultimate problem with this whole basket is that it is purely naturalist, horizontal, and godless at its very foundation. There is nothing in this paradigm that correlates with Christianity. In fact, Christ puts the very core of the Marxist (and critical theory) premise to death; a sinful and sinister humanity who thinks it is God. Only the Gospel has the power to re-create reality. And it is only in this re-creation, in the resurrected humanity of Jesus Christ, that the world has been, is being, and will be ‘flipped upside down.’ Only God alone has the capacity to search the mind and the hearts of humanity. He did, and recognized, that moment by moment, humanity needs to constantly be refreshed by His mercy and grace in order to point people to the eschatological hope of beatific vision and consummate reality of His Kingdom come and coming in the eschatos of the Son. The Christian’s job isn’t to search the heart and mind of the world, of other humans, it is to agree with God in the Gospel, that what is required is that our heart of stone be replaced with His heart of flesh (II Cor 3); one that has the capacity to live in the bond of fellowship that has eternally been in the life of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and bear witness to this, so that the world might know that we are One in the Love of the triune God. A love not of this world, but one that has broke and breaks into this world bringing the life abundant that all desire and hope for as their God given purpose for being. Hallelujah