Last updated 12/28/2024
Some Christians have stated that anti-racist theory and activism are incompatible with Christianity. There's also the antisemitic dog-whistle "cultural marxism" in some of these writings.
This is not about the pros and cons of particular methods of approaching anti-racism. It is about larger patterns in how largely white Christians (don't) address racism.
1. These examples are specific to critical race theory.
Uncritical examples
Resolutions Committee Report 2020 by Barry Calhoun (skip to page seven for the comments on critical race theory and intersectionality)
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Don't Let Critical Race Theory Infiltrate the Church – Contra David Platt | Truth & Liberty (April 2018)
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What is the critical race theory? | Got Questions
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History Hatched in Hell by Joseph Enders | Church Militant (June 2021)
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The Statement on Social Justice & the Gospel. (the first part addresses intersectionality and critical race theory)
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Commentary
Southern Baptist seminary presidents nix critical race theory by Yonat Shimron | Religion News Service (December 2020)
I Agree: Critical Race Theory is Indeed Incompatible With Southern Baptist Convention's 'Faith and Message' by Miguel A. De La Torre | Religion Dispatches (December 2020)
FROM BOYS TO MEN; My Response to the SBC Seminary Presidents' CRT Statement | Wm. Dwight McKissic, Sr. (December 2020)
Black Southern Baptists weigh in on critical race theory critique by officials by Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service (December 2020)
Right's new social studies plan vows to fight CRT, wokeness and the "overthrow of America" by Kathryn Joyce | Salon (July 2022)
Six white men shouldn't decide Southern Baptist position on race by Maina Mwaura | Religion News Service (December 2020)
Woke war: How social justice and CRT became heresy for evangelicals by Bob Smietana | Religion News Service (February 2022)
Southern Baptist Dwight McKissic to leave Texas group over critical race theory stance by Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service (January 2021)
WHY I WILL LEAVE THE SBC IF THEY RESCIND RESOLUTION 9, AFFIRMING LIMITED BENEFICIAL ASPECTS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY (CRT) | Wm. Dwight McKissic, Sr. (June 2021, discusses racist violence, including sexual assault)
'We out': Charlie Dates on why his church is leaving the SBC over rejection of critical race theory by Charles Dates | Religion News Service (December 2020)
Ralph D. West, Houston pastor, cuts ties to Southern Baptists over critical race theory rejection by Yonat Shimron | Religion News Service (December 2020)
Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — 'The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy' by Christopher D. Cantwell | Religion Dispatches (July 2021)
Are Critical Race Theorists literally possessed by demons? Just ask pastor and bestselling author Voddie Baucham Jr. by David Futrelle | We Hunted The Mammoth (June 2021)
2. These are examples of Christians smearing the Black Lives Matter movement. Also note some of the writers below reject Black Lives Matter on the basis of activists accepting LGBT people.
Uncritical examples
How should Christians view the Black Lives Matter movement? | Got Questions
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[video] Special Report: The Truth Behind BLM | Church Militant (June 2020, seems to believe Black Lives Matter is an organization rather than a movement that includes multiple organizations, uses various stawman arguments regarding racial discourse)
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Do all black lives matter? by Ryan Bomberger | Christian Post (June 2020)
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Why Gen Z is Leaving Christianity! | Learning From Christ (May 2023, lists the BLM movement among things Gen Z is supposedly uplifting over Christianity)
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FORUM: The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse by Jay Green | Current (November 2022, lists Black Lives Matter as an example of leftists he thinks are too extreme)
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Why a Christian SHOULD Vote for Donald Trump to be President by Al Baker | Early Christian History Matters (September 2024)
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Commentary
When Christians won't acknowledge racism, protest becomes church by Andre Henry | Religion News Service (June 2020)
3. And these are miscellaneous examples of Christians portraying anti-racism efforts as being anti-Christian or ”secular”.
Uncritical examples
Antiracism 101 is Anti-Christian by Derryck Green | Juicy Ecumenisim (September 2020)
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The Rise of 'Woker-Than-Thou' Evangelicalism by Phil Johnson | Sovereign Nations (July 2018)
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The Marxist roots of black liberation theology by Anthony B. Bradley, PhD | Acton Institute (April 2008)
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Commentary
Dr. Charlie Dates -- Open Letter To John MacArthur
Charlie Dates counters John MacArthur's declaration that MLK 'was not a Christian' by Adelle M. Banks and Bob Smietana | Religion News Service (March 2024)
A letter from Tim Le Haye (co-author of the Left Behind books) to Wheaton College | Facebook post by JR Madill Forasteros (January 2022, alleges the letter was in response to a memorial for Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.)
Maximalists for Love by Jemar Tisby, PhD (November 2022)
Further information
White People, Please Please Pick Me by Danica Seto | overacheiver magazine (September 2020, discusses how people of color can be racist and how white bigots prop them up in order to defend their own racism)
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