Session The Marxist Eschatology of CRT by Darrell Harrison - 2022 Equipping Conference

Son of God, the sin takes on the nature of a servant Jesus, the Father willed to crush him As a sacrifice for sin, he satisfied God's justice And in victory arose again his unsurvivorship When troubled

Would you please stand as we sing this morning, the church is one foundation.

The church is one foundation

Prayer Before the Session

All right, let's bow in prayer before we begin. Our Father, your mercies are new to us each and every morning. Your faithfulness is so great and your goodness to us is undeserved and we are aware each and every moment of your great mercy and your great faithfulness and we thank you for that.

We thank you that we can rest in your goodness and we pray that you may lavish your goodness upon us today through Virgil and Daryl and all that they bring to us. Help them, we pray, to equip us and inform us and encourage us and make our hearts and our spines solid in you so that we may be men and women of courage and boldness in this culture and that you would use our time here to great benefit and blessing upon your people, we pray in Christ's name, amen.

Administrative Announcements and Next Year's Conference

All right, a couple of administrative announcements before we do begin here. First of all, can we have Roger Smith stand up, please? No, we're not gonna sing, Roger, but today is his 90th birthday. So happy birthday.

Go ahead, sit down. Thank you. All right, lunch is provided today and again, I just remind you, there's some three by five index cards on the table or at least available out at one of the tables if you want to write down questions for the Q &A session, which is later.

And then instead of tying this up at the end, I just wanted to make you aware, you've already seen it, that our registration for next year's conference 2023 is Kosti Hinn. We're gonna be talking about being inside the Prosperity Gospel Movement, rescuing loved ones from the Prosperity Gospel Movement, kind of an overview of the Prosperity Gospel and Kosti had, as Benny Hinn's nephew, he had an inside look at that before the Lord saved him.

So he's gonna be here next year for probably just a Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday morning conference like we've done in the past. All right, our next session here, and by the way, it looks like somebody was clubbing last night.

There's glitter all over the stage up here. All right, our next session is The Marxist Eschatology of CRT Part One. Please welcome Darrell Harrison.

Defining Critical Race Theory and the Need for Biblical Truth

Yeah, man, if this glitter wasn't here, somebody might think this was a dance floor, not a pulpit.

Good morning.

You guys good?

You ready to go?

Yeah.

I'm sorry, I'm a natural morning person, so I don't need caffeine in the morning. I wake up ready to go, so thanks for being back. We appreciate you guys hanging in there with us. I know I speak for Virgil when I say we know we hit you guys with some really deep stuff yesterday, so whether you're ready or not, you're about to get more of it.

So I'm here this morning to talk to you on part one, so this is part one of a two-part message that I'm gonna be doing today on The Marxist Eschatology of Critical Race Theory. So if you're taking notes, if you're eating your breakfast, feel free to go ahead and do that, but I would encourage you to take notes as well as you're able to, okay?

So if you're all set, we'll go ahead and get started. The Marxist Eschatology of Critical Race Theory Part One. And in his classic book titled Christianity and Liberalism, by the way, if you don't have this book, I would recommend you get it.

It's by J. Gresham Machen. That last name is M-A-C-H-E-N. It's titled Christianity and Liberalism. Machen was a 20th century Presbyterian theologian. He started out at Princeton Theological Seminary, and then as he saw Princeton going left, he left Princeton and he founded Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

But in his book Christianity and Liberalism, Machen said this, quoting, "'Modern liberalism in the church, "'whatever judgment may be passed upon it, "'is at any rate no longer merely an academic matter.

"'It is no longer a matter "'merely of theological seminaries or universities. "'On the contrary, its attack upon the fundamentals "'of the Christian faith is being carried on vigorously "'by Sunday school lesson helps, "'by the pulpit, and by the religious press.

"'If such an attack be unjustified, "'the remedy is not to be found, "'as some devout persons have suggested, "'in the abolition of theological seminaries "'or the abandonment of scientific theology, "'but rather in a more earnest search after truth, "'and a more loyal devotion to it when it is found.'".

Unquote. Now you'll recall last night, my reiterating something to you that I'm personally very dogmatic about. And that is that every professing Christian must not only be a reader of the Bible, but a student of it, a student of it.

I'm gonna say something here at the risk of maybe alienating some of you, but I don't mean to do that. But my wife Melissa knows that this is a little bit of a point of contention for me. I think the degree to which many of us rely on devotionals is hurting us in the church.

It's, in many ways, it's serving as a crutch because the devotionals are, in many cases, looked at as having the same significance as Bible study time, as going to church and hearing an expository sermon read.

I've got nothing against anyone who happens to be a fan of devotionals. All I'm saying is don't let the devotional be your substitute for personal Bible study between you and the Holy Spirit and digging into the word of God and understanding what these terms and verses mean so that you can become a better apologist yourself because your devotional won't do that for you.

This is what we're getting at here with what Machen is talking about. When he talks about being engaged in a more earnest search after truth, and a more loyal devotion to it when it is found. That's why we're all here.

Now, I find Machen's words to be germane to the topic of critical race theory because the question many professors and Christians are asking today is what exactly is critical race theory anyway?

What is it? What is it?

That's both a good and a necessary question to pose. It's a good question. You remember me yesterday mentioning to you a term called narratology and how in the culture, narratology is just a way of using narrative and storytelling to get you to buy into a certain agenda based on getting you emotionally involved and connected in it.

Well, one trap of narratology is that a wokest and critical race theorist will ask you sort of condescendingly, well, here you are criticizing critical race theory, but can you even define it? What is it?

What is critical race theory? Do you even know what it is? Now, my advice to you is if you're ever asked that question by anyone, refuse to answer it because 99 .9 of the time, they don't know what critical race theory is either, which is why they're trying to put the onus on you.

My motto is never do another person's homework for them. You let them go find out what it is. No, you don't answer that question. No, you tell me what critical race theory is since you know, you know.

But you have to be looking out for these traps, these sort of dialectical traps where they try to get you involved in these conversations. There is nothing wrong with not answering the question. Matter of fact, if you go through the Gospels, you go through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, what you're gonna find is more times than not, when Jesus was asked a question, he never answered the question.

He rarely, if ever, actually answered the question that was asked. And many times, he would respond to that question with another question. And see, that's part of being a good apologist. You respond to questions with other questions.

And there's nothing wrong with that. But what Machen is talking about here is really why all of us are here today. This is why all, because we're in search for the truth. We know what the truth is. We just wanna become more equipped.

That's why I think this conference has a perfect name, the Equipping Conference.

That's why we're here.

So yes, it's a good question to ask. What is critical race theory? I gave you a one-sentence definition of that yesterday. But I believe professing Christians everywhere, regardless of denominational affiliation or political persuasion, would do well to become better informed about what critical race theory is.

Absolutely, you need to know what critical race theory is. You need to know what it looks like. We talked about that yesterday, how to identify it by its subtleties, by its camouflage, by its stealthy terms.

So yes, asking what critical race theory is is an important question. And I'm gonna address that again to some degree in this message. But first, I wanna submit to you that the question, what is critical race theory, is really only a secondary matter.

That's a secondary question. The primary and more important question we should be asking right now is the same question that Pontius Pilate posed in John 18, 38, when he asked, what is truth? That's the question.

That's the question. It is that question, what is truth, that is the most important question that any of us could ever ask. Parents, the reason you're trying to raise your children according to the scriptures is because there's such a thing as truth.

There's such a thing as truth. Bottom line, as followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be people of truth. We are to be people of truth because we are people of the truth. In John 17, 17, before he was arrested and subsequently crucified, Jesus petitioned his heavenly father to sanctify them, and that pronoun them refers to all who believed in Christ then and all who will believe in him going forward in the future.

Christ asked his father to sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth, is truth. Your word is truth. In John 18, 37, Jesus said, everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. So by definition, Christians are people who, by God's sovereign grace, have heard the voice, in air quotes, of Jesus, not audibly, of course.

I got Justin Peters back there. Justin, don't think I said, that I stood up here and said people can hear the voice of Jesus audibly. I didn't say that, I'm just, just metaphorically. I don't wanna end up on one of Justin's videos, man.

You don't wanna do that.

So no, but Christians are people who have heard the voice of God by means of having heard the truth of his word preached, that is the gospel, and consequently, having had that truth, made effectual unto salvation by virtue of the spirit of God, regenerating their sinful hearts and bringing them to faith in Jesus Christ.

That's 1 Corinthians 1, 30 and Ephesians 2, 8 and 9. It is that same truth, that is the gospel, that should serve as the compass, or the north star, if you will, by which every professing believer in Christ should navigate this sinful world in which we live, a world which, according to 1 John 5, 19, lies in the power of the evil one.

By the way, in that verse, the prepositional phrase, the world, in 1 John 5, 19, refers to the ungodly systems, the practices, the mores, the principles by which this world functions and operates, and that includes every ideology, every philosophy, and yes, every theology that comes against God's word and against his church.

And we're gonna talk about this morning and then later on this afternoon when I give you part two of this message, you're gonna understand how critical race theory itself is a theology, it's a theology.

It's like I reiterated yesterday, critical race theory is not just an ideology, it's not an idea, it's some academic proposition that's being taught in schools, it's an entire worldview. Believers in Jesus Christ oughta have a gospel-oriented, meaning a truth-oriented, truth-saturated view of the world.

And another way of saying that is that we oughta have a biblical worldview about everything that encompasses the world in which we live, everything. The early 20th century Dutch reform theologian, Herman Bavington, framed that idea in this way, quoting, truth is objective, it exists independently of us.

It does not direct itself toward us, we must direct ourselves toward it. But just as the wisdom of God became flesh in Christ, so should the truth also enter us. In the path of freedom, it must become our personal and spiritual property.

Through a living and true faith, it must become constitutive of our thinking and doing. Constitutive of our thinking and doing. Bavington said it must become, truth must become constitutive of our thinking and doing.

And by asserting that the truth of the gospel be constitutive of our thinking and doing, Bavington is exhorting you and me to develop and to consistently apply a biblical worldview for a Christian to possess and employ a biblical worldview is to filter everything about this world through the lens of what scripture says about it.

As a British theologian, J .C. Ryle says in his classic book titled Holiness, quote, if a man does not realize the dangerous nature of his soul's disease, you cannot wonder if he is content with false and imperfect remedies.

Among those false and imperfect remedies of which Ryle is speaking is critical race theory. Critical race theory is a false and imperfect remedy for what ails our society. No, you won't find the term critical race theory in your Bible.

Nevertheless, a primary reason that particular ideology has become such a point of division and contention within the evangelical church today is that many professing believers have failed to allow the gospel, as Herman Bavington said, they failed to allow the gospel to become constitutive of their thinking and doing, and especially of their thinking.

It's a failure which I would argue is largely attributable to a collective ignorance in the evangelical church of what the word of God has to say about such unbiblical philosophies. To put it another way, our churches are full of people who read God's word but who actually don't study it.

As the late Dr. R .C. Sproul said, everyone's a theologian. Do you see yourself that way, as a theologian? You realize that you don't have to be a seminary graduate.

To be a theologian.

If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, you're a theologian. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you are a theologian right now as you sit there. John MacArthur says it this way, he says, if we're going to study the Bible, we've got to be committed to the fact that the Bible needs to be studied.

Marxism, Cultural Marxism, and the Roots of Critical Race Theory

In the book titled The Derrick Bell Reader, so named after the late Harvard University law professor Derrick A. Bell, who I mentioned yesterday is known as the father of critical race theory, Bell writes this, quoting, he says, critical race theory sprang up with the realization that the civil rights movement of the 1960s had stalled and needed new approaches to deal with the complex relationship among race, racism, and American law.

Now, I mentioned to you yesterday, as I took you through the chronology of how we got to critical race theory, we went from the critical theory, the Frankfurt School, the Institute of Social Research in Germany in the 1930s, and then to the 1970s, to the critical legal studies movement, and then in the late 1980s, you get the critical race theory movement all undergirded by cultural Marxism.

But what Bell is talking about here is something that I mentioned to you yesterday. We got to critical race theory because the critical race theorists didn't think that the critical legal studies movement had gone far enough.

Now, when you look at the 1960s, especially in America, blacks gained significant victories during that one decade. Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Brown versus Board of Education, blacks in America gained significant victories.

And if I can just take a detour here for one second, I think it's interesting when you look at the history of the struggle for black civil rights in America, which really encompassed more than 100 years, to attain the rights that we have now as blacks in America, as opposed to the rights that LGBTQ lobby has been able to gain in less than 10.

What you'll find if you study the LGBTQ movement, they always hijack the black civil rights movement. It's like the black civil rights movement is the train with the engine, and the LGBTQ movement comes on and attaches the caboose.

The LGBTQ movement has gained in less than 10 years what it took black people in this country more than 100 years, when you think about it. We go from the 1860s, coming out of the Civil War in 1865, you got Reconstruction, you got the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, you come out of that, then you've got the, you start with the Emancipation Proclamation, you go with the Jim Crow laws that had to be defeated, then you had the redlining that had to be dealt with, and then you're into the 50s and 60s, where you get into education discrimination, housing discrimination, you get voting discrimination, things like that.

You're looking at over 100 years to really get recognized as a person. But the LGBTQ agenda, which is a minute, statistically speaking, a minute portion of the population, look how much power they have.

Less than 10 years, they're getting everything they want. So it's not people like me and Virgil that black people need to be angry at, they really should be angry at themselves for letting the LGBTQ lobby hijack the Civil Rights Movement.

That's what they should be angry at. In their book, Critical Race Theory and Introduction, co-authors Richard Delgado and Jesus Dufansic define the Critical Race Theory movement as follows, quoting, a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power, Critical Race Theory questions the very foundations of liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.

After the first decade, Critical Race Theory began to splinter and now includes a well-developed Asian American jurisprudence, a forceful Latino critical contingent, a feisty LGBTQ interest group, and now a Muslim and Arab caucus.

Although the groups continue to maintain good relations under the umbrella of Critical Race Theory, each has developed its own body of literature and set of priorities, unquote. So what you just heard is precisely why Critical Race Theory is not only about race, it is entire worldview.

It's a worldview that also promotes and advances an idea known in Critical Race Theory circles as intersectionality. I mentioned that term yesterday and its founder, Kimberle Crenshaw. What you heard me quote just now from Richard Delgado and Jesus DeFancy, that gives you an idea of how intersectional Critical Race Theory is.

It's not just about race. It's getting all these different interest groups and ideologies involved toward the goal of developing an entire worldview. And by the time I'm done here, you're gonna understand why I titled this message The Marxist Eschatology of Critical Race Theory.

Dr. Michael Dumas, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, describes Kimberle Crenshaw's intersectionality as follows. Quote, intersectionality has been advanced within CRT as a way to capture the dynamic relationship between race and other, quote unquote, differences, including gender, sexuality, sexual identity, disability, and of course, social class, unquote.

As a philosophical construct, Critical Race Theory has its origins in one of the most demonic and destructive ideologies ever to exist in human history, namely Marxism. You'll recall me mentioning that yesterday.

Marxism is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people. Yet you heard me quote from Critical Race Theorists themselves yesterday that they credit Marxists for helping them develop that philosophy.

Marxism, so-called because of its namesake, Karl Heinrich Marx, a German-Jewish, Argentine atheist and anti-Semite. Have you ever met or heard of a Jew who hates Jews? Well, that was Karl Marx. Karl Marx was one of the most racist individuals ever to live.

He hated everyone. He didn't care what your ethnic background was. He hated everyone. He was very influential in the formation of the Critical Legal Studies Movement of the 1970s, as you heard me say yesterday.

According to the book titled The Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education, matter of fact, let me pause here and say, if you're gonna get one book on Critical Race Theory, get this book. The title is The Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education, First Edition.

The Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education, First Edition. If you want a sort of holistic view of what the agenda, motives and inspirations that drive Critical Race Theory are, it's in that book.

I'm quoting from that book here. Composed predominantly of white neo-Marxist legal scholars and intellectuals who sought to expose and challenge the view that legal reasoning in America was neutral, values-free and unaffected by social and economic relations, political forces or cultural phenomena.

For Critical Legal Studies proponents, American law and legal institutions tend to serve to legitimize an oppressive social order, unquote. So the Critical Legal Studies Movement operated under the presupposition that American Jewish prudence was racist.

To put this in layman's terms. It was biased towards white people, biased against black people, people of color. Please note that the phrase oppressive social order is classic Marxist vernacular. You need to look out for certain buzzwords when you listen to these Critical Race Theorists.

Words like radical, words like transformation, words like oppressive, oppression. All those are Marxist terms. The use of those terms really should come as no surprise to any of us because in Marxism, everything is oppressive.

Everything in Marxism is oppressive, but especially Christianity. Listen to what Karl Marx said in the Communist Manifesto. Quoting him, the democratic concept of man is false because it is Christian.

The democratic concept holds that each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, the dream, and the postulate of Christianity, unquote. It's interesting that in Critical Race Theory, Christianity is the only faith-based worldview that's attacked.

Critical Race Theorists don't go after Muslims. They don't go after Jews. They don't go after Buddhists. They don't go after any other religion other than Christianity. You know why? Because Marxism is so inherent to Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Theory has to operate in a way that attacks Christianity because Christianity was the target of Marxism.

This has all just come full circle. Given the influence of Marxism and Critical Legal Studies movement, which subsequently influenced the Critical Race Theory movement, I think it's both relevant and germane to our understanding of Critical Race Theory to have some idea of the very significant role that Marxism played and continues to play in shaping the Critical Race Theory worldview.

And that understanding begins, I believe, with our gaining some insight into the kind of person that Karl Marx himself was. In his book titled A History of Western Philosophy and Theology, theologian John Frame, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary, writes this, quote, "'Marx was an admirer of Charles Darwin.

"'Marx believed that the ultimate causes of events "'were material, not mental. "'Further, in his view, "'those ultimate causes were economic. "'The attempts of people to achieve material well-being "'are what motivate the events of history.

"'In his analysis of the production of goods, "'Marx distinguished between factors of production, "'that is, food, clothing, shelter, work skills, "'and relations of production, "'master, slave, owner, worker, et cetera.

"'It was the relations of production Marx thought "'to be the more important "'in understanding historical change. "'So in his understanding, "'all past history has been determined by class conflict.'".

Where do you remember that from? We broke that down yesterday. But how everything in Marxism, just like critical race theory, is class antagonism, is class conflict. "'There is always an upper class and a lower class.

"'There are always haves and have-nots. "'In ancient times, the haves were the slave owners "'and the have-nots, the slaves. "'The interests of these two groups were entirely opposed. "'Any increase in the prosperity of the owner "'is at the expense of the slave and vice versa.'".

Now, you'll recall what I'm reading here from John Frame and talking about Karl Marx, the term in critical race theory for that is interest convergence. So what you're hearing Frame articulate about the worldview of Karl Marx in that any increase in the prosperity of the owner is at the expense of the slave.

In interest conversion, any increase in the station of life of a white person is always at the expense of a black person. Marxism and critical race theory are like this, just like this. It's a zero-sum relationship.

So conflict is an unavoidable consequence. I'm still quoting John Frame. "'Christians were in the vanguard "'in abolishing the slave trade and slavery itself, "'also in the care of orphans and widows, "'improving education, encouraging science and art.

"'But Marx thought that religions "'and liberal social movements should not be encouraged. "'In his view, they were counterproductive "'because there was precious time and energy wasted, "'and that time and energy does not get "'to the root of the real problem.

"'The real problem,' he and later Marxists argued,.

"'are structural.'".

Now, where do you hear that? You hear that all the time in critical race theory. We must tear down the structures. We must destroy these structures. We must destroy these institutions. Continuing to quote John Frame, "'They cannot be solved until there is a radical change "'in the very nature of society.

"'They cannot be solved until there's a radical change "'in the very nature of society. "'The means of production must be taken away "'from the rich capitalists "'and given to the representatives of the poor.'".

Representatives of the poor. Let me give you a contemporary real-time example of how that's working out right now. It's working out right now through Black Lives Matter. The representatives of the poor in this case are Patrice Colours, Opal Tometi, and April Garza, the three co-founders of Black Lives Matter who have been enriching themselves to the degree of tens of millions of dollars, while the black people who many people thought black lives existed to help continue to languish in poverty.

This is exactly what's happening right now with Black Lives Matter. Representatives of the poor. It's always the representatives of the poor that get wealthy. It's never the poor who get help. That money never gets down to the poor.

Never. The representatives of the poor. So Marx, still quoting Frame, so Marx described religion, particularly Christianity, as an opiate, a kind of drug given to the poor by the rich to persuade them that revolution is not needed.

Under the influence of the opiate, they come to think that they will get their due reward through normal social change and eventually a reward in the sky by and by. So Marxists regard religion, especially Christianity, as a barrier to revolution and therefore a barrier to truly radical social change.

Again, that quote was from John Frame's book, A History of Western Philosophy and Theology. Again, the phrase radical social change is merely code for Marxism. Wherever you see that word radical, it's either Marxist or communist that they're talking about.

Cultural Marxism is that brand of Marxism that fuels the critical race theory movement today. We talked about that yesterday, about how Antonio Gramsci is the father of cultural Marxism. In an article for, speaking of Gramsci, in an article for the Foundation for Economic Education, or FEE, titled Antonio Gramsci, the Godfather of Cultural Marxism, author Bradley Thomas writes this, quote, there's little debate that modern day American universities, public education, mainstream media, Hollywood and political advocacy groups are dominated by leftists.

This is no accident, but part of a deliberate strategy to pave the way for communist revolution developed more than eight decades ago by an Italian political theorist named Antonio Gramsci. Described as one of the world's most important and influential Marxist theorists since Marx himself, if you are not familiar with Gramsci, you should be.

Gramsci wrote in the 1930s of a, quote, war of position, unquote, for socialists and communists to subvert Western culture from the inside. The Italian communists, who lived from 1891 to 1937, is credited with the blueprint that has served as the foundation for the cultural Marxist movement in modern America.

In his view, a new collective will is required to advance this war of position for the revolution. To him, that is to Gramsci, it is vital to evaluate what can stand in the way of his will, i .e. certain influential social groups with the prevailing capitalist ideologies that could impede this progress.

Let me pause right here. One of those influential social groups that Gramsci is talking about here that could stand in the way or could impede the progress of this revolution moving forward is the church.

In other words, you. This is exactly why critical race theory is coming after your schools, it's coming after your church, and it's coming after the place where you work. It's coming, it's coming. Continuing the quote from Bradley Thomas's article, Gramsci spoke of organizations including churches, charities, the media, schools, universities, and, quote, economic corporate, unquote, power as organizations that need to be invaded by socialist thinkers.

Now, you might understand how secular entities like universities, the media, corporate interests might be subject and more, I guess, more apt to fall for this kind of stuff, but it's churches that are buying into this stuff as well.

Churches and denominations. Churches and denominations that are being invaded by socialist thinkers, and it's not even an invasion anymore. You've got evangelical seminaries that exist, as I stand here right now, that are teaching critical race theory, that are advocating liberation theology.

Listen to our next episode, I'm gonna name names. But when Bradley Thomas writes of Antonio Gramsci saying that these institutions need to be invaded from the inside by socialist thinkers, it's happening, it's happening.

But it's like I said yesterday, don't think that your place of work is going to say, yeah, we're introducing this new Marxist program for HR. They're not gonna say that. They're gonna add, you're gonna get an email asking you to fill out a survey from a consulting firm that helps develop diversity, equity, inclusion programs.

That's gonna be the Marxist invasion of your place of business through DEI. It's gonna come into your school as ethnic studies, social and emotional learning, SEL.

That's how it's coming in.

That's how this invasion that Gramsci talks about is gonna happen. It's happening right now. On August 17th of 2020, the website for Catholic World Report published a review of a then new book, and I quote it from this book yesterday.

It was a book by Dr. Paul Kengor titled The Devil and Karl Marx. Catholic World Report published a review of that book back in August of 2020. And the following is an excerpt from that review. Quote, in the chapter titled My Soul is Chosen for Hell, Kengor provides excerpts from the demonic poetry and prose of Karl Marx, written several years before his communist manifesto in 1848, in which he waxed poetic about, quote, the hellish vapors that rise and fill the brain till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed.

See this sword? The prince of darkness sold it to me. For me, he beats the time and gives the signs. Ever more boldly, I play the dance of death, unquote. Remarking on that poem entitled The Player, Dr. Kengor notes, quote, the blood violinist is not destroying the world because he hates it, but is doing so in order to spite God out of derision and mockery against the creator.

He is a rebel like Satan, the ultimate rebel against God and heaven, unquote. Marxism does the same. By destroying the world as it exists, creating a new world in which God is destroyed.

And man is elevated, unquote.

If you don't have the book, The Devil and Karl Marx by Dr. Paul Kengor, I encourage you to get it and read it. See, it's dangerous to listen to me and Virgil. It's dangerous, because you're gonna go broke listening to us.

The books and the white papers and stuff that you hear us citing in our podcast episode, this is stuff we've read. These books are in my library right now. I've read them all. This is why I can recommend them to you, because I've read them.

So I'm not trying to get you to go out, especially, what, gas here is almost $5, more than $5 in some cases. I'm not trying to get you guys to spend, I know stuff's expensive right now, but really, if you wanna be equipped, if you really wanna be equipped, you have to invest.

You have to invest in expanding your library. So consider getting a copy of the book, The Devil and Karl Marx by Dr. Paul Kengor. That last name is K-E-N-G-O-R. But what I want you to catch at the last part of that quote from that Catholic World Report review of Dr. Kengor's book, is where Dr. Kengor says, Marxism does the same by destroying the world as it exists, creating a new world in which God is destroyed and man is elevated.

And those four words, creating a new world, is not only the goal of Marxism, but it's also the goal of critical race theory. Creating a new world, that's eschatological language. That's eschatological language.

See, what you have to understand about eschatology, too often within the church, you hear that word eschatology, and it too often refers to something coming to an end. But eschatology isn't only about something coming to an end, it's about something coming to an end and something else beginning.

So it's not just the end, it's the end and then starting something else. That vision is reflected by Richard Delgado and James Stefansik in their book, which I cited earlier, Critical Race Theory, an introduction, where they say this, quote, although CRT began as a movement in law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline.

Today, many scholars in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists who use CRT's ideas to understand issues of school discipline and hierarchy, tracking, affirmative action, high-stakes testing, controversies over curriculum and history, bilingual and multicultural education, and alternative and charter schools.

And let me pause in this quote right here. What you are hearing Delgado and Stefansik articulate is exactly why in public schools, especially as it relates to black children, the bar, the academic bar is not only being lowered, it's being eliminated.

SAT's are no longer necessary. ACT's, you don't have to have that. LSAT's, you don't have to have LSAT's to even get into law school anymore. I was just reading just last week, somewhere in California, in a public school system out there somewhere, teachers are now being required to factor in the child's ethnicity in grading them.

Where they're automatically imparting to that child, if it's a black child, if it's an ethnic minority, especially a black child, a victimhood mentality whereby they're already assuming that that child is incapable of learning, so we have to offset that by factoring that into the grades that we give them.

So what's problematic about that, many things that are problematic about that, but one of which is when they come, when those young children who are now seven, eight years old when they get to be 17 and 18, and they're gonna be graduated from high school totally illiterate, they won't know how to read, they won't know how to add, but they're gonna be graduated out of high school.

They're gonna be pushed out into society incapable of fending for themselves because of critical race theory. See, I'm gonna read this section again because I want you to get what they're saying here.

Although CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline. Today, many scholars in the field of education, that's why you need to get that book I referenced earlier, Critical Race Theory in Education.