By Dr. Marlene McMillan
July 25, 2023
Critical Theory has been normalized in our culture. Even people who say they are not promoting it are unwittingly training the next generation to embrace its methods through the teaching of Critical Thinking. Critical Thinking is presented as simply teaching a child to think for themselves, analyze data, and make them more intelligent. In reality, Critical Thinking is Critical Theory in method. The methods of Critical Theory have led to the breakdown of Western Civilization and the deconstruction of thousands of Christian young people away from the faith of their fathers.
Well-meaning Christians, conservatives, and patriots still see Critical Thinking as positive. They will continue to be duped until they understand the Dialectic Process is a system used by master dialecticians. These trained facilitators are really trained Marxists, masterful in the language and method of deception. Truth is not on their agenda. Turning the next generation into activists for the revolution is their goal.
Critical Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory and all the other Critical Theories are cut from the same cloth. It is systemically flawed, not the Constitution, the nuclear family, or Western Civilization that it so relentlessly criticizes. An idea that does nothing but break down and destroy has been allowed to claim the moral high-ground over a worldview that has resulted in the most Liberty to the most people in the history of the world. Who should be apologizing to whom?
How have so many intelligent, capable parents and teachers been caught in the Critical Thinking net? How can they not believe the messages spoken loudly and printed plainly? I have found, as an expert in how the Dialectic Process is used against us, that most people do not know the meaning of the words and how their meanings are distorted in the process of double-speak.
How can Christian teachers read a book like Models For Critical Thinking by Albert Rutherford that explains the connection to Bloom’s taxonomy (that all degreed teachers, Christian and not, must study for certification) and not know they are being asked to participate in a system designed to destroy respect for Biblical authority? We have been conditioned subtly, gradually, and masterfully to embrace ideas so well-crafted that even the elect could be deceived.
Critical Theory is a linguistic structure of destruction. It has created a vocabulary around victimhood and redefined the rules of life. The problem is when unreality has a collision with reality, reality always wins. Equality can be labeled freedom, but the people in Cuba are still slaves — they have equal wages, fair housing, free healthcare, etc., but they are slaves, with travel outside their borders restricted. The ideology of Marxism got them there, and licensed religious leaders help to keep them there.
Liberty is the result of a principled language and method. Slavery is the result of a dialectically-designed language and method. You cannot speak the language of destruction and get anything but destruction. Destruction is systemic to Critical Theory. Some pastors are trying to adopt the language of Critical Race Theory and merge it with the Gospel. God hates mixture. The forbidden tree was the tree of mixture — the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Yes, there was good there, but the evil came along with it and could not be separated. The Tree of Life is like Proverbs 10:22: The blessing of the Lord, it makes rich, and He adds no sorrow to it.
The Politically Correct Police determine your alignment with them by how much of their language you speak. The “It is written” of the Word is not politically correct. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty” (II Corinthians 3:17). Why are we spending our time entertaining godless philosophies instead of taking every thought captive and making it obedient to Christ? If thoughts have to be taken captive and made obedient to Christ, that must mean we can have rebellious thoughts, and it is rebellious thoughts that need taken captive, not people.
Definitions are like mini-contracts that you enter into without even thinking about it. They are like mini-powers of attorney that empower others over you. Why does it matter to the politically correct police that you use their words? Because their words have specific meanings, and even if you don’t agree with their definitions, by using their words, you are agreeing to their frame of reference. You are agreeing to their worldview by method. Your ignorance of how the Dialectic Process works does not change your agreement any more than your ignorance of the meaning of a clause in a contract releases you from any obligations verified by your signature. Your use of Critical Race Theory words and their frame is like a signature of overt consent that they are setting the rules and you are in agreement.
Destruction is systemic in Critical Theory. Whatever wrongs/injustices Black Lives Matter or any other trained Marxists and community agitators claim to correct cannot be solved with hatred, deceit, and destruction. Critical Theory is a tactic of the Dialectic Process and is explained in a one-of-a-kind manual Mountains of Deceit: How the Dialectic Process has infected the Culture available from WhyLIbertyMatters.com.
Luke 4 says Jesus came to set the captives free, heal the broken-hearted, and set at Liberty those who are bound. Anyone who hates Jesus cannot set the captives free. If their ideas, no matter how lofty sounding, result in bondage, their ideas are not Biblical, no matter how many Scriptures they quote, how beautiful their vestments, or large their audiences. If, in the name of Jesus, a different gospel is preached — a gospel that results in bondage and not Liberty — it is not the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Liberty is indivisible. You do not get equality by promoting special privilege. Equal protection under the law is reflective of our equality at the foot of the cross. Marxist agitators know that they have to sow the seeds of discontent, hatred, and division in order to promote their brand of totalitarianism. In Acts 2, redistribution was temporary and voluntary. Money laid at the feet of the apostles was by choice, not by coercion of civil government. Socialism is based on an un-Biblical idea of redistribution that, when convenient, distorts Acts 2 and uses it as a proof text for civil government confiscation of private property. Socialism may be Communism with a smiley face, but all forms of totalitarianism are really Slavery.
The answer to all this conflict is in the Kingdom. The current national unrest is evidence the Gospel, in recent generations, has not been and is not being preached from the pulpits of our land. It is time for repentance and confession for distorting the Word of God.
Liberty is indivisible. Principles that yield Liberty are the same everywhere in the world. They are not different for different races or countries. The principles of Liberty do not change just because we wish it were so.
The apostles, who lived in a world where slavery was normal, were accused of turning the world upside down. In reality, they were turning the world right side up. Ideas that lead to bondage and tyranny are not new. Critical Theory is just academic language for the original lie, “you can be as gods.” It is a method of calling evil good and good evil.
The apostles were told to stop speaking in politically incorrect, unapproved, and disruptive ways. They answered that they feared God rather than man and faced the human consequences. Where are the people today who allow God to govern their thoughts and are willing to call evil evil and good good? Where are the preachers who still believe God’s Word defines good and evil?
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32
“Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” Heb. 12:15
The Gospel properly preached results in Liberty. The gospel distorted results in bondage and tyranny. You don’t get Liberty by breaching the immutable laws of Liberty. Either we will live in Liberty together or we will suffer in Slavery together.
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