Diversity Equity Inclusion
The Theology
2 Religions: EDI Progressivism vs. Christianity - The Theology
Christianity has a 2,000 year record of building harmonious societies.
Progressivism has a 60 year record of destroying harmonious societies. The fact that Progressivism has developed in the West, as an iteration of Socialism for our time, is testimony to the success of Christianity, liberty and free enterprise in building such a free civilization, where utopia is even imaginable. Other cultures do not give rise to the expectation that we could ourselves create a perfect world.
But why not do what we can to bring the world more justice, equity? Surely this is good, and good people must try?
But when words that have acquired such positive connotations and have our trust then undergo such twisting, and are used for the very reason that we are less likely to interrogate the user’s intent behind his language, then we must question, or else lose our freedom and everything our civilization has won over the centuries. Our duty is to question and keep thinking freely, for the sake of the next generation.
Christianity gives us a neutral benchmark, referee, judge, who is God. No one can put himself in the shoes of God in judging others. We are all imperfect, not just our opponents. That brings about a more fundamental equality than Progressivism can deliver with EDI.
Progressivism, on the other hand, designates its conforming activists and followers as the good and dissidents as the evil. The elect believers have a duty to anathematize unbelievers for their Hate, categorised as racism, sexism or a phobia of sexual minorities, because this Hate delays the realisation of the utopia of Equality.
Christianity offers forgiveness to the wrongdoer.
Progressivism condemns the wrongdoer and wrongthinker.
Christianity is realistic, accepting our faults and selfishness as inevitable, although we can work on them. The perfect world will not be our human creation, but we can achieve advance membership of the eventual new creation through faith. Our spirits, which even our present materialistic generation cannot deny and which cause us to seek something higher than ourselves (even in our quest for DEI, for example) can be satisfied by faith in Jesus.
Progressivism, on the other hand, expects imperfect people to create a perfect world, and we can see it trying to do this in an improbable process of division, hatred and clamping down on freedom.
On identity, Christianity has us looking up in gratitude to God, all sharing a unifying common identity as His children . . .
. . . not looking sideways at each other in envy and division as Socialist Progressivism demands, as it divides us into irreconcilable hostile power-seeking identity groups.
We need something to believe in, and striving for equality of all people seems the best and fairest thing to aim for, to help those who suffer. . .
. . . But disbelieving in Equality as god enables one to speak truthfully on matters where Progressivism’s EDI commands us to lie. What use is a dogma that cannot be real about human nature?
The knowledge that we are made in the image of God enables us to laugh at the absurdity of chasing equality. Who needs to obsess about being equal with other men, when he can be a child of God?
Deep down, we all want our children’s spirits to be free and happy and united with our heavenly creator God.