Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith

by April Ajoy

But it’s not just conservative Christian politicians dismissing CRT and other topics of race. A quick Google search will bring up countless articles and posts from Christian pastors and media critiquing CRT from their Biblical perspective. Ken Ham even wrote in a rebuttal, “CRT says only the oppressors are guilty. The Bible, however, says we are all sinners.”12 Another Christian wrote an opinion piece in The Tennessean that posited that CRT and rehashing sins of the past only causes division because, at the end of the day, “Only Jesus can change the heart of a racist.”13 You’d think CRT was teaching people to worship Satan with the vitriol it receives from the Christian right. So I looked up the definition to find out what it really is. Critical Race Theory is a decades-old academic tool that looks at society through a racial lens, acknowledges that racism doesn’t solely exist in individual bias, but continues through systemic means. Ah. There it is. Systemic.