#178 Responding to woke culture: Is critical race theory a real threat? with Dr. Doug Groothuis
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 20 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A dangerous and revolutionary philosophy is responsible for the street fires in America. It fuels the actions of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and invades curricula in public schools and in our military. It is in our churches. You have heard the phrase “white privilege,” the need for “safe spaces” on campuses, and perhaps the tongue-twister “intersectionality.” Behind all of these is an ideology called critical theory, which is a form of cultural Marxism that divides society into the oppressed and the oppressors. It claims that America is “systemically racist” and founded on slavery. It believes that the voices of the minorities should trump the perspective of the dominant (and oppressing) culture. Dr. Doug Groothuis joins me to discuss this topic on today's podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian nationalism has now become an epithet. |
| 0:04.0 | So, oh, you defend the free market in your Christian nationalism. |
| 0:07.0 | If you're conservative politically, you're a Christian nationalist. |
| 0:10.0 | And those are the people that storm the capital. |
| 0:13.0 | And those are the people who are a threat to our democracy. |
| 0:15.0 | And as a philosopher, I say, hold on. Calm down. |
| 0:19.0 | Let's take this piece by piece. Let's tease this out. |
| 0:23.0 | Define terms, defend your views. |
| 0:26.0 | And let's have a good conversation about these things. |
| 0:29.0 | Typically, you can't do that on Facebook and tweets and Instagram and the TikTok. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and then proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness and truth. |
| 1:02.0 | And we're going to try to do that today with a tough topic. |
| 1:05.0 | We're going to be discussing the fact that the streets of America were on fire in 2020. |
| 1:10.0 | Why was that happening? |
| 1:12.0 | And why does it still seem, even if it's just more of an ideological sense, why is it still seem like we're just on fire? |
| 1:19.0 | We're going to be talking about that today with a special guest. |
| 1:21.0 | But I want to let you know about a few things that are coming up. |
| 1:25.0 | So, this episode will be the final official podcast episode of the year. |
| 1:30.0 | Now, this is the first time in the history of the podcast that we've actually taken a short hiatus. |
| 1:35.0 | But we are going to not be putting out any episodes in the month of December. |
| 1:40.0 | So, I just want to kind of let you have that expectation right now. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm actually getting ready to take a sabbatical for the last couple of weeks of November and on through the entire month of December and the first week of January. |
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