CRT-DEI’s False Political Religion

In my view, the film thus provides evidence that the CRT-DEI vision traffics in essentially Christian heresies, because it co-opts and transmogrifies Christian concepts that have been detached from their original theological context. As Joshua Mitchell has argued, identity politics is sort of a super-genus, in which the various theories of innocent victimhood are species. In the CRT-DEI species, persons of color are inherently innocent, and white people are inherently transgressors. According to the teaching of the Bible, Adam’s transgression stained the entire human race, and man’s redemption could only be brought about by the sacrifice of the Innocent One. According to the CRT-DEI teaching, whiteness is forever tainted by the “original sins” committed by white Europeans of slavery and colonialism. But there is no grace, no forgiveness for the white transgressors, because they owe a debt that can never be repaid. Nothing less than a full innocents-led scapegoating and laying-low of white transgressors and the inheritance associated with whiteness—the whole Western cultural and political tradition—will suffice for atonement. Read Full Article »