POPULAR culture teaches that you can understand the world by dividing people into two groups - the OPPRESSED and the OPPRESSORS. When you realise this is how the world is arranged, you are WOKE. You can work out who belongs to which group - either oppressed or oppressor - based on their identity.
Man was originally made in the image and likeness of God which is God's spirit in man but this was lost in the Fall and all are now born equally cursed desperately needing to be born again by grace in Christ who is the Image of God and restores His image in those He valued enough to die for and not those He justly casts into Hell. The greatest problem of the Church today is that it preaches a false man centred gospel which refuses to declare that salvation belongs to the Lord and not man.
'The oppressors can never be saved since oppressors cannot stop being white, or male, or heterosexual.'
Oh yes they can! As a member of the aforementioned group, if I become a woman, and assume a faux aboriginal identity (think Uncle Bruce Pascoe), I'm now a black, female lesbian and therefore as oppressed as f**k.
It's a take on what the Catholics call Transubstantiation, the literal transformation of water and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The woke have borrowed heavily from Christianity, but there's no redemption for the sinner, only cancellation.
Love James' work, more people need to read his skewering satire.
James you have been given this platform for this time… you have an amazing gift communication. Your Podcasts are excellent… but wokeness is flying its flag across our nations our leaders have already surrended…we need this message and action now!
Wow, really well articulated James! You've nailed it 🧐 It is tragic that so many Christians are absorbing elements of Critical Theory-thinking and re-interpreting their faith in light of it.
So many in the Western Church have become "children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting".
The oppressed by the oppressors has been going on since the beginning of Time … these must be the END times … its taken how long to get here?
This...this is very well written. Thank you.
Man was originally made in the image and likeness of God which is God's spirit in man but this was lost in the Fall and all are now born equally cursed desperately needing to be born again by grace in Christ who is the Image of God and restores His image in those He valued enough to die for and not those He justly casts into Hell. The greatest problem of the Church today is that it preaches a false man centred gospel which refuses to declare that salvation belongs to the Lord and not man.
Brilliant piece James!
'The oppressors can never be saved since oppressors cannot stop being white, or male, or heterosexual.'
Oh yes they can! As a member of the aforementioned group, if I become a woman, and assume a faux aboriginal identity (think Uncle Bruce Pascoe), I'm now a black, female lesbian and therefore as oppressed as f**k.
It's a take on what the Catholics call Transubstantiation, the literal transformation of water and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The woke have borrowed heavily from Christianity, but there's no redemption for the sinner, only cancellation.
Love James' work, more people need to read his skewering satire.
Great article James, thanks for putting it so clearly.
James you have been given this platform for this time… you have an amazing gift communication. Your Podcasts are excellent… but wokeness is flying its flag across our nations our leaders have already surrended…we need this message and action now!
Brilliantly written James! This is an important piece for everyone to understand.
Wow, really well articulated James! You've nailed it 🧐 It is tragic that so many Christians are absorbing elements of Critical Theory-thinking and re-interpreting their faith in light of it.
So many in the Western Church have become "children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting".