Posted on 12/02/2021 5:16:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Is the Salvation Army going woke on racism? Foxbusiness.com (11/26/21) observes: “A Salvation Army guide aimed at ‘courageous conversations about racism’ asks ‘White Americans’ to ‘stop trying to be ‘colorblind.’"
Stop trying to be colorblind? I thought that was the ideal, promoted by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.---to treat people according to the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
There are apparently two prominent documents from the Christian denomination (which is what the Salvation Army is) that deal with the issue of racism, issued by the American headquarters of the group in Northern Virginia.
One of them is “Let’s Talk About Racism.” Joseph Curl quoted from this document in the dailywire.com (11/25/21): “Many have come to believe that we live in a post-racial society, but racism is very real for our brothers and sisters who are refused jobs and housing, denied basic rights and brutalized and oppressed simply because of the color of their skin.”
As of this writing, the Salvation Army has now pulled this document down---perhaps because of blowback. They recently issued this statement: "…the International Social Justice Commission has now withdrawn the guide for appropriate review."
Of course, racism is a horrific evil. But some critics are concerned that rather than responding to actual racism, the Salvation Army had aligned itself ideologically with the Black Lives Matter organization, which leverages unfalsifiable and amorphous charges of “systemic racism” to drive racial grievances.
Whatever the stated intentions of Black Lives Matter may be, their stance against the family actually exacerbates poverty --- by helping to break down the family.
A Black Lives Matter handout declares: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable. We foster a queer-affirming network.”
So much for God’s design for the family. While the extended family can be helpful, studies show what a major difference it makes in the life of the child to have a mom and a dad. The kind of “disrupting” of the nuclear family BLM advocates has actually done incredible damage to the black community.
There’s another document from the Salvation Army. “Study Guide on Racism” is still online, and thankfully it is much better.
The booklet states: “Racism is fundamentally incompatible with the Christian conviction that all people are made in the image of God and are equal in value. The Salvation Army believes that the world is enriched by a diversity of cultures and ethnicities.” Yes, and amen.
They also note, “The only race is the human one;” and they add, “Followers of Jesus Christ now find essential unity in Him, rather than in culture and ethnicity. Such a way of thinking and relating is a powerful force for good. It embodies the ministry of reconciliation.”
Despite its critics, true Christianity practices real diversity, rather than the race-centered, divisive, skin-color-obsessed counterfeit promoted by the left. In Christ, there is no black, there is no white, there is no distinction of socio-economic status.
One of the goals of the Salvation Army, inasmuch as they are motivated by the love of Jesus, is to alleviate poverty. This is why they have worked tirelessly since their origin in the slums of London in 1865. They now work in 131 nations around the globe.
But anyone that promotes the disintegration of the family inadvertently promotes poverty and the further disintegration of society.
The irony is that government policies tend to create more poor people because they penalize functioning families. Welfare programs in the U.S. subsidize out-of-wedlock births, thus, creating more poor people.
The Brookings Institution says that you have a 98 percent chance of avoiding poverty if you do three things: 1) Graduate high school. 2) Work full time. 3) Marry before you have children. Only 2 percent of those who do these things end up in poverty.
As Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation points out, marriage turns out to be the single greatest weapon in the war on poverty.
It would be quite a shame if the Salvation Army ever does go “woke.” I’ve always respected their overall consistent Christian witness. I even had the privilege of once interviewing the worldwide head of the organization in London in 2001. The late John Gowans told me there wouldn’t be a Salvation Army without the Savior, Christ.
Meanwhile, after recently pulling down the controversial racism guide, they said: " The Salvation Army mission statement clearly outlines the nature of our service: to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and meet human needs in His name without discrimination. The beliefs that motivate our service are based solely on the Bible, and that will never change." This is a lesson we should all heed.
Well. As they say....”go woke, go broke”. Take that bell and shove it up your wazoo.
“Let’s Talk About Race”?! Why? That topic alone nurtures racism.
Apparently, they are trying to play it off like it was nothing but you can decide for yourself - below is a link to that document and a few CHOICE excerpts where white people need to be ashamed and apologize for the sin of being white.
I will NEVER again donate money or household goods to the SA. They are dead to me. THIS is what they think of YOU:
“Whiteness and the normalization of White racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where non-White persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.”
“It is historic and modern legislating, societal conditioning and systematic institutionalizing of the construction
of Whiteness as inherently superior to people of other races.”
“Take a personal inventory on race and discuss it with a friend. If you engage a trusted Black or Brown friend, please make sure they have the emotional and mental capacity to handle this.”
Goodwill Industries is joining them. Too bad. I love Thrifting
Langenlook. Refashioned flannel shirts
And, to add to this - how long did it take for them to come up with this? Certainly not overnight.
This crap has a lot of money and time behind it, sprinkled with Bible verses, telling us to pray over this.
This looks like it was years in the making. So, all this time while they were taking our money and donations, spitting in our faces, smiling while they planned this sh!t, acting like they are a Christian organization when they are a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
“Take a personal inventory on race and discuss it with a friend. If you engage a trusted Black or Brown friend, please make sure they have the emotional and mental capacity to handle this.”
...so not only do I need to apologize for being white but I also need to do a psychological profile to be sure it doesn’t hurt their feelings that I apologize for being white. Got it
I didn’t wait for the kettle, I was a monthly donor. Was. No more.
Not necessarily equal in intellect or capability.
Sounds a bit racist to me.
God? must now be anti family ..as in a mom and dad, against children being born,
Heterosexuality as a natural state,underpaid politicians,
Men with penises...
“Whatever the stated intentions of Black Lives Matter may be...”
Simple. BLM’s goal is to extort corporations and governments out of tons of money so their leaders can get rich.
This would be an incredibly bad move, considering folks on the right are more likely to donate money and goods than those on the left…
For them to mention that a certain person’s ‘emotional and mental’ capacity needs to be considered solely based on their race, isn’t that racism?
Yep
Any Santas in Compton, Bed Sty, Oakland, Chicago SS, Philthy?
As Dennis Prager says many times: “The LEFT never builds anything, the LEFT only destroys things”.
It appears the LEFT has succeeded in destroying a long appreciated institution.
So if the Salvation Army becomes extinct because of the LEFT, will the work the SA was doing be taken over by some GOVERNMNET BUREAUCRATS???????
Yeah, good time to release it Salvation Army - right before your massive fund raising season before Christmas.
I was with an elderly friend yesterday who said he’s “never passed a Salvation Army pot without throwing money in” - never again, he said.
And, I’m seeing a lot of this same sentiment all over the comments sections on the Internet, no donating ever again - and perhaps tossing a note in the pot instead as to WHY there will be no donation ever again.
They will never again get a penny of my money.
Communists realized that it is more effective to take over a society by infiltrating from the top rather than the bottom.
Guess they don't need any of my racist White money.
They also note, “The only race is the human one;” and they add, “Followers of Jesus Christ now find essential unity in Him, rather than in culture and ethnicity. Such a way of thinking and relating is a powerful force for good. It embodies the ministry of reconciliation.”
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Nice try at attempting to dig the Salvation Army out of the ditch they drove themselves into. The pulled study guide preached the latest so-called “anti-racism” B.S. such as it is wrong to be color blind.
You can read a preserved copy here...
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Salvation-Army-Lets-Talk-About-Racism.pdf
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