{"id":566279,"date":"2021-06-16T19:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566279"},"modified":"2021-06-16T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:36:51","slug":"this-is-about-power-black-theologian-voddie-t-baucham-exposes-demonic-ideology-behind-crt-blm-anti-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-about-power-black-theologian-voddie-t-baucham-exposes-demonic-ideology-behind-crt-blm-anti-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is About Power\u2019: Black Theologian Voddie T. Baucham Exposes \u2018Demonic Ideology\u2019 Behind CRT, BLM, Anti-Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-is-about-power-black-theologian-voddie-t-baucham-exposes-demonic-ideology-behind-crt-blm-anti-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566279&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Voddie-Photo-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Each time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voddiebaucham.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Voddie T. Baucham<\/a> returned in recent years to visit his native United States from Zambia, where he lives and serves as the dean of theology at African Christian University, he further cemented his resolve to write a book.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with The Daily Wire, Baucham explained the unique insight he offers as a black pastor and theologian who&nbsp;now views the country from the outside after having been raised in an American inner city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve come back three or four times a year for speaking tours and it\u2019s always interesting to be an American expat looking back at the U.S.,\u201d Baucham said. Each time he came back, he explained, he could \u201csense the temperature change\u201d around flashpoint issues such as social justice, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Intersectionality, and antiracism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fault-Lines-Movement-Evangelicalisms-Catastrophe\/dp\/1684511801\/ref=zg_bs_12360_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=561A04K7Z3RA3YT44182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism\u2019s Looming Catastrophe<\/a>\u201d is the new book that emerged from Baucham\u2019s years of studying and reflecting on such ideologies, which he believes are new fronts in a spiritual war that is fracturing both evangelicalism and the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s one of the reasons that I just became so keenly aware and so passionate about writing this book, because it was really noticeable to me that things were shifting quickly and deteriorating quickly,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m watching families be divided, churches be divided, institutions and schools and denominations be divided over this thing. Being an expat coming back and seeing that, it was just alarming to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA Black Christian\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born 1969 in Los Angeles, Baucham was raised by a single teenage mother, whose many sacrifices he credits with his survival. He spends the first part of the book recounting his formative years, which took place during an especially tumultuous time for the black community. He remembers well the era of desegregation busing and the ravages of the crack epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>In a struggle he describes in a chapter titled \u201cA Black Christian,\u201d Baucham wrestled for some time with the challenge of whether to find his identity primarily in his race or his faith after he converted to Christianity during his freshman year of college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question of the proper order of faith and ethnicity is critical to understanding the various positions people take in the broader social-justice debate \u2014 one with which all people must wrestle, regardless of their ethnicity,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHowever, for black Christians, this concept has often been difficult to embrace for several reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a young man, Bachaum had been drawn to the Black Nationalist ideas of Malcolm X, a Marxist who \u201cdenounced Christianity as a religion designed for slaves.\u201d When he became a Christian, he found he had to renounce such a worldview, but it gave him unique&nbsp;discernment into the nature of CRT and other ideologies that seek to politically weaponize race and undermine faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA Religion Without Grace\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baucham dissects over several chapters how CRT and the social justice movement twist traditional religious categories into a means by which to assert power. Characterizing the battles facing the U.S. as fundamentally spiritual, he deftly traces such philosophies to their origin in what he describes as the \u201cdemonic ideology\u201d of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and their neo-Marxist successors in the Frankfurt School.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shapiro-national-review-karl-marx-you-were-wrong-ben-shapiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shapiro At \u2018National Review\u2019: Karl Marx, You Were Wrong<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis talk of antiracism and this talk of critical social justice is very much religious in its overtones,\u201d he said, explaining how it \u201cborrows from the Judeo-Christian worldview in terms of the words that it uses.\u201d With its emphasis on slavery and reparations, he pointed out, the so-called antiracism of Ibram X. Kendi, for example, is replete with notions of original sin and atonement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut more specifically, this religion has its own cosmology, its own understanding of the way the world came to be. This religion has its own theology and theological terminology. It has its own saints, its own priests, it has its own rituals. And it has a dogged commitment to its ideology and its theology and a punitive approach to those who step out of line,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s a religion, but as a religion, it offers no hope. There is no ultimate redemption in antiracism. You just have to do the work of antiracism for the rest of your life and hope you never step out of line, because if you do, then you go back to zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/15\/why-antiracism-zealots-try-to-silence-black-voices-like-mine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed<\/a> for the New York Post, he put it another way: \u201ca religion without grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As someone who traces his ancestry to slaves in North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, and Texas, Baucham himself had to personally come to terms with what he believes is the only answer to historic injustice. \u201cThe most powerful weapon in our arsenal is not calling for reparations: it is forgiveness,\u201d he writes. \u201cAntiracism knows nothing of forgiveness because it knows nothing of the Gospel. Instead, antiracism offers endless penance, judgment, and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis Present Darkness\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because it has the trappings of Christianity, Baucham believes many Christians have \u201cfallen prey\u201d to the social justice movement. \u201cWhat Christian does not want to be for justice, right? What Christian does not want to empathize with people if they are oppressed? What Christian doesn\u2019t want unity and reconciliation and everything else? So I think there\u2019s a sinister aspect to the religious nature of this movement in that it\u2019s those religious terms and that religious ideology that it tapped into that has really led people astray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apart from what it co-opts from Christianity, Baucham also discerns a darker element in the rites of these pseudo-religious ideologies and the movements that spring from them, such as BLM. Referencing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ephesians+6%3A12&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">verse<\/a> in Ephesians that teaches that mankind contends with invisible forces of evil, Baucham writes in his concluding pages: \u201cI see Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, Critical Social Justice, and their antecedents \u2014 Marxism, Conflict Theory, and Critical Theory \u2014 as \u2018cosmic powers over this present darkness.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe organization is Marxist, revolutionary, feminist, misandrous, pro-LGBTQIA+, pro-abortion, and anti-family, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/2020\/the-occult-spirituality-of-black-lives-matter?mc_cid=8b7e6b9b67&amp;mc_eid=1782d9211a&amp;fbclid=IwAR0WXYASyiCvki5VVyEJjF1AxTaY0R-PPvsyHNqV-tgPnvtXxWzliIzr6Fw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roots in the occult<\/a>,\u201d Bachaum writes of BLM. \u201cIt is unacceptable for Christians to partner with, celebrate, identify with or promote this organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-just-cant-get-on-board-sf-giants-player-cites-christian-faith-as-reason-for-refusing-to-kneel-for-blm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018I Just Can\u2019t Get On Board\u2019: SF Giants Player Cites Christian Faith As Reason For Refusing To Kneel For BLM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He notes how, in addition to being self-described \u201ctrained Marxists,\u201d Patrisse Cullors and her BLM co-founders are also open practitioners of witchcraft, whose rituals to invoke the dead feature prominently in the organization\u2019s protests for slain people of color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my tradition, you offer things that your loved ones who have passed away would want,\u201d Cullors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8NHQ3uyIngM&amp;t=1828s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> during an interview with Los Angeles BLM chapter founder Dr. Melina Abdullah. \u201cWhether it\u2019s like honey or tobacco, things like that. It\u2019s so important, not just for us, to be in direct relationship with our people who have passed, but also for them to know we\u2019ve remembered them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHashtags for us are way more than a hashtag,\u201d Cullors said of social media protests. \u201cIt is literally almost resurrecting a spirit so they can work through us to get the work that we need to get done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis movement is much more than a racial and social justice movement,\u201d Abdullah added. \u201cAt its core it\u2019s a spiritual movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPeople Are Beginning To Wake Up\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baucham\u2019s cultural and spiritual diagnosis is sober, but he remains hopeful. \u201cI was worried for a while that we\u2019re moving toward a race war,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t see that now. I see a pushback against Critical Race Theory and some of these other things, and so I\u2019m excited about that. The other thing is, I feel like this is running out of steam. There\u2019s only so much guilt and self-flagellation that people can go through before they finally say, \u2018You know what, I\u2019m tired.\u2019&nbsp;I think we\u2019re at that point now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, the emperor has no clothes and there are people out there who are screaming that from the rooftops. I\u2019m trying to do that in my book to basically say, \u2018Listen, this ideology is bankrupt.\u2019&nbsp;I\u2019m hopeful that people are beginning to wake up and become aware. I think we\u2019re beginning to turn a corner, but there\u2019s a lot of damage that\u2019s been done. And there are a lot of people who are still entrenched in this, because ultimately this is about power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining how the neo-Marxists shifted Marx\u2019s idea of economic class conflict to apply instead to \u201can oppressor class\u201d and \u201can oppressed class,\u201d Baucham said, \u201cThe whole idea of critical theory is that you assume those categories and then work your way toward this revolutionary overthrow of the oppressor by the oppressed. So that\u2019s still there and there are a number of people who are committed to it, mainly because of the power that it gives them. And people will ride that all the way to positions in Fortune 500 companies, or positions in the government, or whatever else is available to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cashing-in-blm-co-founder-goes-on-real-estate-buying-binge-snagging-four-homes-totaling-millions-of-dollars-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cashing In: BLM Co-Founder Goes On \u2018Real-Estate Buying Binge,\u2019 Snagging Four Homes Totalling Millions Of Dollars: Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there are those people who are going to hold onto it for dear life,\u201d he added. \u201cBut I\u2019m hopeful because people\u2019s eyes are opening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding what the average person can do to push back against this ideology, Baucham stressed the importance of knowledge and courage. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be informed,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think a lot of people have just decided to curl up and not engage this because they haven\u2019t been informed.\u201d He hopes his book will be useful to that end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then secondly, when you\u2019re informed, be engaged,\u201d Baucham continued, adding how much of the ideology has advanced through bully tactics.&nbsp;\u201cWe have to engage and we\u2019ve got to refuse to be bullied. We\u2019ve got to refuse to be silenced on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then, when we engage, we have to engage in a way that we\u2019re exposing this ideology for what it is,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/big-media-aligns-to-bend-largest-protestant-denomination-to-its-woke-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Media Aligns To Bend Largest Protestant Denomination To Its Woke Will<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each time Dr. Voddie T. 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