tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000196701682120087.post1817213295484702217..comments2023-06-08T06:20:06.396-04:00Comments on Just a Curmudgeon: Critical Race Theory, RTS, and SBTSWilliam H. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16943856892268011802noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000196701682120087.post-22160830162824076212018-01-06T22:31:07.921-05:002018-01-06T22:31:07.921-05:00[continued] Part 2
I would give Tisby about ten ...[continued] Part 2 <br /><br />I would give Tisby about ten seconds and if he hadn't the sense to see his error, if he lacks the godly character to repent on the spot.... I would pray this imprecation over him out loud... <br /><br />"Oh mighty, gracious Lord, and God over all, who did appoint the times and places of our dwelling by Your all-wise providence, hear my prayer... I pray that You teach us all to be thankful for Your care over all our being. But to the unthankful and unforgiving servant, I ask in accord with Your word, that You would take away all that is his and lock him in prison until he pays the utmost farthing. I pray that you return my brother Jemar to the Dark Continent, take from him all his earthly possessions, save for a loin cloth, and acquaint him with the lot in life that would have been his had not our forbears participated in the evils they did. Yes it was evil oh Lord, but you meant it for good. Restore to my brother Jemar all that would be his prior to the intervention of your gracious loving and wise providence all those centuries ago. Take him back to Africa and grant him the lot of the unforgiving servant. Give to him the portion of the prodigal who was eating the husks with the swine after he scorned the riches of Your house and the care of your providence. I pray this for the glory of Your Name, the purity of the Church and the reclamation of my brother from the root of bitterness. Appoint him his lot with the unbelievers and the unforgiving that he might be taught not to blaspheme. In Christ's name and for His glory, Amen."<br /><br />I would have the prayer printed on a card and hand it to him afterwards and tell him that I am not going to stop praying this for him because it is for the ultimate reclamation of his soul from grievous sin and error.<br /><br />And that is all I have to say about the matter. Someone needs to call out these haters and expose their sin that dares masquerade as piety and compassion in the Name of Christ. It is an utter affront to the gospel and nothing short of institutionalized sin and bitterness.<br />gcdugashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891496227400676880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000196701682120087.post-33824845543602112052018-01-06T22:29:53.795-05:002018-01-06T22:29:53.795-05:00I cannot tell you how I grieve over the matter. Bl...I cannot tell you how I grieve over the matter. Blood-bought black brethren are being robbed of the unfathomable riches they have in Christ in exchange for the false gospel of bitterness, resentment, covetousness, hatred and [ultimately] reparations. <br /><br />It's so sad to see how racism, in the form of guilt manipulators peddling reverse-discrimination and a "you owe us", "hate-whitey" bitter spirit has infested Christ's bride. Whatever happened to 2Cor 5:16?<br /><br />I've read with tears all the ill fruit of CRT and just want to vomit. If I had a message for the Church in America on this matter, it would be centered around the 10th commandment and it's instructing us to be content with our earthly estate. The story of Joseph has always been my favorite OT story. At the end of slavery, mugging, false accusation, chains and imprisonment he could say: "you meant it for evil but God meant it for good". In a similar fashion, we don't all know the dirt of our fleshly genesis. Some of us have the pedigree of prostitution, incest (Rahab, Tamar). Some of us have known forced migration fleeing persecution (Huginots), some of us are descended from criminals on a penal colony (Australians). Some of us had ancestors that were abused in child labor factories (Sinclair's "The Jungle"). No doubt some of us had ancestors that were the abusers rather than the abused. "But whatever our lot, Thou hast taught us to say, it is well, it is well with my soul."<br /><br />The Lord spoke to Balaam by an ass. In our day, God's Church was rebuked by the example of, at the time, the world's most famous convert to Islam. I speak of Muhammad Ali. Echoing Joseph's statement in Genesis, Ali had this to say regarding his ancestry....<br /><br />After his ‘Rumble in the Jungle,’ back in Sese Seko’s kooky Zaire, Muhammad Ali was famously asked “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” to which the Champ replied, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.” (Note he didn't say "thank Allah")<br /><br />So, I'd like two minutes with the divisive Jemar Tisby to question him about his commitment to the Westminster Standards and particularly:<br /><br />Q. 147. What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?<br /><br />A. The duties required in the tenth commandment are, such a full contentment with our own condition, and such a charitable frame of the whole soul toward our neighbor, as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto, and further all that good which is his.<br /><br />Can he not say with Joseph: "God meant it for good to bring it about as it is this day"? Would he rather be back in a benighted, pagan Africa, alienated from the life of God, a stranger to the covenants of promise and running around in just a loin cloth destined for a Christless eternity, or in 21st century America with all her flaws? Is he not ashamed of himself when Muhammad Ali exhibits more sense than all those who have been ensnared in the fashionable anti-white resentment of our age and his [Tisby's] role in spreading this "root of bitterness thereby defiling many"?<br /><br />[continued]<br />gcdugashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891496227400676880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000196701682120087.post-5073047002238117862017-03-31T13:57:48.272-04:002017-03-31T13:57:48.272-04:00I didn't remove the comments. Apparently Dr. P...I didn't remove the comments. Apparently Dr. Pipa did.William H. Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16943856892268011802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000196701682120087.post-22641300910659417852017-03-31T12:25:37.178-04:002017-03-31T12:25:37.178-04:00Does the author reject endorsements from GTS?Does the author reject endorsements from GTS?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000196701682120087.post-2710574195625373952017-03-25T22:36:26.086-04:002017-03-25T22:36:26.086-04:00Thanks for putting a name to this philosophy. I...Thanks for putting a name to this philosophy. I've been encountering it and challenging it among young ministers in the PCA for a few years, but was unaware that the movement or philosophy had a name, and a coherent narrative. The quotes are full of logical fallacies and represent an agenda, one which I believe, if the real truth be known, stems more from sanctimony and the desire to establish moral superiority than a genuine desire to address issues of racism. A key failure in the philosophy is the identification of race with cultural practices and customs, and the failure to distinguish between culture and race. It is why blacks—I refuse to capitulate to the notion that there is anything wrong with this term—in, say, England, do not experience the discrimination that American blacks do. It is because the characteristics of general American black culture (listen to a typical rap music song's lyrics, for instance) include many facets that any honest person would agree are decadent, and it is these that result in the discrimination. Again, the obvious proof of this is the difference in the way black people relate to their relative societies in other countries. American blacks have been oppressed and are still oppressed, but this oppression is not the result of the failure of "meritocracy" (a contrived buzz word subltly used to denounce a very biblical concept and principle: responsibility) or any phenomenon of "white privilege"; it is now, over 150 years after the end of slavery, the result of the perpetuation of a black underclass through the administration of leftist policies such as compulsory government education, the denial of school choice, federal welfare programs that subsidize promiscuity and promote dependence rather than responsibility, etc., some of whose advocates do so out of good-hearted but foolish naivete, and some who do so out of selfish desires to promote and continue the dependent underclass for political or other advantage. Bill is right that we are in a mess, primarily because of these factors. biggsenatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13407439446935793534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000196701682120087.post-1957721596878999562017-03-24T11:45:17.950-04:002017-03-24T11:45:17.950-04:00Yes, indeed, a very helpful article that help us u...Yes, indeed, a very helpful article that help us understand the deeper issues involved. <br /><br />This needs more discussion -- Are the ways of looking at race associated with Critical Race Theory compatible with the views of our Lord and his Apostles? Or is "Critical Race Theory" a grid through which the texts of the New Testament are read by scholars such as Dr. Williams and Mr. Tisby? Erastushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15883228199662118273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000196701682120087.post-68450694774463912642017-03-24T10:39:13.215-04:002017-03-24T10:39:13.215-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Joseph Pipahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04578141601003076818noreply@blogger.com