Mark Driscoll's "10 commandments" of Critical Theory are a checklist of behaviors, behaviors that we by now have evidence to suggest are how he treats people, not just how he says critical theorists treat people

Christian Theology vs. Critical Theory

© 2021 by Mark Driscoll

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-7-9 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-8-6 (E-book)

 

Pages 16-17

When sinners sit in God’s judgment seat, as Critical Theory encourages, the following 10 Counterfeit Commandments appear:

1. Autonomy: I should be in authority, not under authority, which explains why

I tell everyone else what to do but will not allow anyone to tell me what to

do.

Driscoll's would be 10 counterfeit commandments are really ten behaviors. The irony of this checklist of behaviors is that it isn't that difficult to demonstrate how Mark Driscoll has exemplified these ten behaviors in his own ministry career despite his imputing these behaviors to Critical Theory and critical theorists. So we'll start with the first "commandment" of autonomy, which Driscoll describes as the attitude outline above, an attitude that, as we go through the history of the late Mars Hill, seems to be remarkably like Mark Driscoll.  

CT v CT continued: Mark Driscoll calls CRT a harmful religious movement (John McWorther did that in 2015) and says it's Marxist as if no Marxists have been critical of BLM or contemporary anti-racism as an alternative to real leftist policies

Christian Theology vs. Critical Theory

© 2021 by Mark Driscoll

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-7-9 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-8-6 (E-book)

 

Pages 25-26

Phase 4 – The Cult of Wokeism as Secular Religion & BLM

 

Around the 2010’s the few hundred-year-old term “social justice” was picked up to serve as an overarching category to describe hidden biases and systematic errors across most every academic discipline. The result was that social justice “scholarship” pulled all disciplines under Critical Theory making it the leading counterfeit metanarrative to the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Western world.

 

Underlying Critical Theory is social Marxism. Economic Marxism based upon atheism has so fully proven to promise Heaven but only deliver hell wherever it has been imposed, that it is an unsellable option to most anyone who has enough life to fog a mirror. Examples include the former Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Cuba and elsewhere where the body count, killed by their own government in the name of cultural progress, stacked up to nearly 100 million citizens during the 20th century alone. Cultural Marxism has the same goals as economic Marxism but, rather than kicking in the front door to rob a home, it picks the lock and sneaks in the back door to accomplish the same task of redistributing wealth and power, when it actually only redistributes poverty and powerlessness. All of this is done in the name of justice, which is appealing to the Christian, since you will find that same word in the Bible, albeit with a different meaning. Just like the cults, note that words are used from the Bible and completely redefined so that the meaning is changed. Yes, the father of lies has a thesaurus and PR firm. The subtle shift from economic to cultural Marxism was moving the focus from capitalists and workers to race, class, and gender categories of oppressors, and the oppressed needing violent revolution in the name of justice, and the redistribution of power and wealth. It goes by many names, but you should pay attention when you hear things like “equity” instead of equality, which is something altogether different, “justice” or “social justice”, along with appeals to “inclusion” which has little room for heterosexual Christianity, “diversity” and “tolerance” which are not diverse or tolerant enough to include Bible thumpers, and “culturally responsive teaching” which are codewords for the intolerista.

 

You'd think Mark Driscoll has never heard of John McWhorter ... 

Mark Driscoll has a message for "Woke Joke Folk" that he's got a new ebook out on Christian Theology vs. Critical Theory, too bad he couldn't be bothered to list primary or secondary sources in his bibliographic notes

https://www.facebook.com/pastormark/videos/2065642433600130/

https://twitter.com/PastorMark/status/1444796371165458435

Haven’t gotten in trouble for a while. It was time. Download the book, “Christian Theology VS Critical Theory,” at the link in my bio. 

Twitter responses seem to alternately suggest that initially the link didn't work and the form of Driscoll's announcement was not received in an entirely joyful manner.

Driscoll, however, is making headlines, which is what he has complained other people are seeking while seeking them himself.  

https://churchleaders.com/news/406407-mark-driscoll-critical-theory.html

A Prelude and Fugue on demons and exorcism in American civil religion (by way of statue toppling and punditry on critical theory)

What I’m about to present is not so much an essay in a usual sense but more as the literary equivalent of a prelude with a fugue--a path of reading by way of a river of citations.  Think of it as a literally prosaic variation on a methodology of quotation used in T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”.

This is a survey of some reading I was doing in 2020 on the topic of statue toppling, statue vandalism, and the reactions of leftist, progressive, liberal, conservative and maybe even some reactionary responses.  I saw a fair bit of coverage that tacitly discussed the toppling of the statues of slave traders and slave owners in terms of political history but less often in terms of civic religion.  The conservative bromides about how toppling statues was a bid to erase history seemed to me in egregiously bad faith because, well, that may give me the opportunity to quote extravagantly from Jaques Ellul’s book The New Demons on the concept of the sacred as it relates to political life.  So ...