The key word in “systemic racism” isn’t “racism,” it’s “systemic.” Critical race theorists have exploited white guilt and black bitterness to convince people they’re antiracists, though they’re not really against racism.…Critical race theorists are not antiracists, they’re anti-Western democracy. In fact, they’re pro-racism as a means to creating a revolution against Western democracy.
—Samuel Sey @SlowToWrite—

Key point: The gospel is good news, but Resolution 9, which promotes critical race theory and intersectionality, has been very bad news for and about Southern Baptists. It’s past time for the SBC to rescind Resolution 9, a statement it never should have made in the first place.

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Pastor Travis McNeely and Professor Randy Trahan have done Southern Baptists and the entire evangelical community a tremendous service with their video series on critical race theory. The series consists of six highly informative sessions, including this one on Resolution 9 On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. Resolution 9, you may remember, was adopted two years ago at the SBC in Birmingham, Alabama.

This video is only 40 minutes long. The SBC desperately needs Southern Baptists who are fully informed about Resolution 9, especially at the upcoming convention in Nashville. Why?

Because for the sake of the gospel and the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, Resolution 9, which promotes an unbiblical and ungodly ideology, must be fully rescinded.

Southern Baptists must rescind Resolution 9.

As Professor Trahan explains, “What I’d say with respect to critical race theory is, though, yes, all truth is God’s truth, well, critical race theory is not true. And with respect to plundering the Egyptians, there’s really nothing here worth plundering. To the extent that critical race theory could be considered gold at all, it would have to be called fools gold.”

What I’d say with respect to critical race theory is, though, yes, all truth is God’s truth, well, critical race theory is not true. And with respect to plundering the Egyptians, there’s really nothing here worth plundering. To the extent that critical race theory could be considered gold at all, it would have to be called fools gold.
—Professor Randy Trahan—

Hear again Professor Trahan’s recap of his presentation, which he gives at the end of the video. This clip is just three minutes, forty seconds long.

Additional Background Information

As previously stated, Resolution 9 was adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham, Alabama, in June of 2019. The resolution itself said,

Critical race theory is a set of analytical tools that explain how race has and continues to function in society, and intersectionality is the study of how different personal characteristics overlap and inform one’s experience.

It further stated

that critical race theory and intersectionality should only be employed as analytical tools subordinate to Scripture—not as transcendent ideological frameworks.

Despite this disclaimer, because critical race theory and intersectionality stand contrary to Scripture and have Marxist leanings, use of these, even as “analytical tools,” is incompatible with Scripture and the gospel. And that’s just for starters.

Resolution 9 is wrong on a multitude of levels. Here, briefly, are two. The following is adapted from this article.

First, Resolution 9 and those who have supported it have inadvertently insulted blacks and other minorities by implying that to reach them evangelistically, Southern Baptists may need to employ belief systems or even “tools” that have led people to unbiblical conclusions. Minorities do not need to be so “coddled,” nor even coddled at all! They are like everyone else with regard to their sinful condition and their need of Christ. Share the gospel with them, and watch them respond! I may be oversimplifying the situation, but not by much. Do we as Christians really believe in the power of the gospel, and in the power of the Holy Spirit to convict the human heart?

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Second, Southern Baptists who support Resolution 9 are unintentionally slamming the gospel itself, as well as God’s Word in a larger sense. Pastor Josh Buice writes,

Dr. Josh Buice

If CRT and intersectionality are insufficient alone to diagnose social ills, what about the Scriptures—are they insufficient alone to diagnose social ills? In a day where we’ve already watched the evangelical world attach woke to church—now the SBC has attached woke to the Scriptures.

These actions carry dangerous implications! We must repudiate any and all ungodly philosophies and belief systems, including—and now perhaps especially—the religion of social justice, a religion that includes critical race theory, intersectionality, wokeness, and numerous other unbiblical ideologies.

An important and necessary step toward doing this is to rescind Resolution 9 at the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, meeting June 15-16, 2021.

Please share this post with others. The future of the SBC is at stake, and much more is at issue than Resolution 9.

Copyright © 2021 by B. Nathaniel Sullivan. All rights reserved.

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Update: posted May 22, 2021

Mike Stone, 50 other Southern Baptists introduce resolution repudiating Critical Race Theory ~ Capstone Report

A PDF file of the proposed resolution is available here.

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source of top image: Capstone Report