Neil Shenvi
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Christian. Homeschooling theoretical chemist. Member of The Summit Church. Spurgeon fan. Connoisseur of fine memes.
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Critical Dilemma, my book with
@RealPatSawyer
, provides a definitive explanation of and response to contemporary critical theory.
Endorsers include Carl Trueman (foreword), Karen Ellis,
@jdgreear
,
@thomaschattwill
,
@peterboghossian
, and Alisa Childers.
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I still can’t get over how rapidly the progressive narrative went from “gender stereotypes are for bigots” to “if your son likes dolls, he’s a girl”
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"Critical Grooming Theory"
When some people hear "groomer," they immediately apply a Western, individualistic lens. But they fail to realize that "grooming" is a systemic, structural problem deeply embedded in our "ways of knowing."
A thread. 1/
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This is going to sound snarky, but it’s a genuine question: what is the precise term for an adult who wants to talk to kids about sexuality without their parents’ knowledge or consent, but *does not* want to molest them?
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Jesus devoted little if any of his ministry to dismantling unjust systems and structures. He spent nearly all of his time preaching the gospel, teaching, and doing good to individuals.
We don't live in 1st-century Israel, but his model is still relevant to us.
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When a progressive is offended that he's called a "groomer," that is a symptom of "groomer fragility." He needs to sit with his discomfort and do the work to understand the lived experience of children and detrans folk who are harmed by systemic grooming. 3/
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The
@ACLU
edits RBG to bring her speech up-to-code. The right side of history must be appeased.
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As a half-Indian, I do not need to discover half-Indian characters in the Bible for it to speak to me.
It speaks to me because it is God's word to all people for all time.
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What a comfort it is that Jesus said "It is finished" and not "Do better."
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I'm seeing a growing exodus of Christian families out of public schools and into the homeschool community.
The church needs to help equip them to provide their kids with a quality education rooted in a Christian worldview.
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When I, as a Critical Gooming Theorist (CGT) say that all progressives are groomers, I'm not saying that they personally support grooming, as defined by the dictionary. I'm saying that they benefit politically from "systems of advantage" that harm children. 2/
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A lot of progressives think there is a category of "not groomer." But one is either "groomer" or "anti-groomer." Being "not groomer" is just a way to perpetuate systemic grooming. 4/
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Your sex is not assigned at birth.
Your sex is recognized at birth.
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My homeschool co-op requires students to take multiple courses in logic, starting in 7th grade. This is the way.
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Is this thread satire? Yes. But it's a satire based on statements and reasoning taken nearly verbatim from the Critical Social Justice literature (e.g. Kendi, DiAngelo, Adams, Collins, etc.). CSJ is fundamentally flawed, cynical, and deconstructive. It is a universal acid. 7/
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Grooming is one of many interlocking systems of oppression. One cannot be anti-groomer if one is a communist. One cannot be anti-groomer if one is a feminist. To be "anti-groomer" it to recognize the intersections of your communist, feminist, progressive privilege. 5/
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If you've been drinking the Kool-Aid of CSJ language and ideology, it's time to wake-up. They're a dead-end. You don't have to choose between embracing CSJ and embracing actual racism/sexism/injustice. You can and must reject both. 9/9
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Stop worrying about being on the wrong side of history and start worrying about being on the wrong side of truth.
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Your deference to experts should be tempered by the knowledge that Robin DiAngelo has a PhD.
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Railing against "white evangelicalism" is often just a subtle way to rail against historic Christian theology.
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If this thread frustrates you, good. It should. It shows why we need to reject CSJ. It will poison our discourse and tear to shreds the very fabric of our society. Maybe rethink how you've been redefining words like "racism," "bigotry," whiteness," and "Christian nationalism." 8/
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I just got an email from a Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion asking for help getting Critical Race Theory *out* of their school. Encouraging.
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If Sola Scriptura is replaced by Sola Lived Experience, we’ll be left with the 21st-century American version of the book of Judges in which “everyone did what seemed right in his own eyes.”
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For many reasons, the last 18 months have been a good time to think about homeschooling.
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Superficial change is insufficient. CGT shows that systemic grooming has been baked into supposedly neutral, objective ideas like "expressive individualism," "identity," and "social justice" from our nation's founding. Dismantling it requires fundamental social transformation 6/
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Wokeness in 1 Tweet:
1) society is divided into oppressed/oppressor groups along lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, etc via 2) hegemonic power. But privileged people are blind so 3) we need to defer to the lived experience of the marginalized to 4) dismantle unjust systems
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the child who whispered "the emperor has no clothes" hadn't authored a single peer-reviewed paper on the subject smh
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I'm increasingly convinced that the most pressing apologetics need is not equipping Christians to defend the truth of Christianity, but protecting Christians against the advance of theological liberalism.
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Evangelicals are reaping what we've sown in terms of anti-intellectualism.
If "empathy" and "compassion" are the only standards by which we judge ideas and if reasoned critique is deemed "unloving," we're doomed.
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Christians, don't confuse criticism of
#CriticalRaceTheory
with a rejection of racial unity.
Indeed, if you want to pursue racial unity, you should reject CRT.
CRT will not unite us. It will tear us apart.
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People sometimes ask me: "Has 'wokeness' peaked?"
I reply: "I don't know. But I do know that students who are currently in high school and college will be your *pastors* in 10 years. So you need to equip your kids *right now* to reject these ideas or you will reap the whirlwind"
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Friends, without being specific, I’ll simply say that many prominent evangelical leaders are suddenly waking up to the serious dangers of
#CriticalSocialJustice
. Press on.
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Disliking children is unnatural and should not be normalized.
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My semi-annual MRI came back stable. Brain tumor shows no new growth. Soli Deo gloria.
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As a man living in a patriarchal culture, Jesus possessed "male privilege." Yet he was wholly without sin, guilt, or moral complicity. Therefore, possessing privilege does not entail sin, guilt, or moral complicity.
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Piper is quite right to point out the corrupting influence that a president's *person* will have on our nation, quite apart from his *policies*.
But a president who vocally affirms abortion and gender transition will corrupt our nation's character too, just in different ways.
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I would like to apologize for posting direct quotes and screenshots from primary sources and for offering to engage in reasoned dialogue.
Twitter is not a place for this kind of behavior and I promise to do better.
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"We women are the answer to virtually everything that ails society" - Jen Hatmaker
"Women are not the answer to what ails society. Men aren't the answer to what ails society. Women and men *are* what ails society...Christ is the answer to all that ails society" -
@conservmillen
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Pet peeve: when people refer to their spouse as their “partner.”
You’re married. You’re not selling insurance together.
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My kids will be hearing the best arguments (and responses to those arguments) against Christianity *from me* before they go to college.
I don't want them to get blindsided. I want them to be equipped and prepared.
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The Sexual Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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THIS IS AMAZING.
"In the style of a Vox journalist, write a 5 paragraph essay on why cucumbers are racist" H/T
@jaketeater
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Pastor, if you constantly tell your congregation that your privileged status as a straight white male prevents you from correctly understanding biblical teaching on ethnicity, how will you convince them you're still able to understand biblical teaching on gender or sexuality?
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Disney movie pitch:
A young girl discovers that the path to happiness is ignoring your heart, cleaning your room, and obeying your father.
The animal sidekick is a lobster.
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"You brood of vipers" - John the Baptist
"You snakes!" - Jesus
"I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!" - Paul
"unreasoning animals" - Peter
"grumblers, malcontents...loud-mouthed boasters" - Jude
Gentleness is a biblical imperative, but it's not the only one
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All Christian colleges should draft a statement on sexuality and gender. All faculty and staff should be required to affirm it annually as a condition of employment.
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Unfortunately, we're at the point where every theological discussion needs to begin with the question:
"Are we going to settle this issue on the basis of stories, feelings, and lived experience? Or on the basis of reason, evidence, and Scripture?"
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If you want to know how deeply
#CriticalRaceTheory
has influenced some evangelicals, try repudiating it.
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The more I wander through the baroque yet endlessly tedious labyrinth of woke religion, the more I appreciate the simplicity of the gospel of Jesus.
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Ten years from now, if you have evangelical convictions about sex and gender, you may not be able to work for a major university or for the government or for a big corporation.
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Our ethnicity does not determine whether our arguments are valid or invalid.
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What happens after the normalization of trans?
The normalization of pedophilia through abolishing age of consent laws.
Am I being alarmist? Thread:
Queer theory argues that the gender binary is an oppressive social construct. Women are "constructed" as weak and helpless, 1/
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“Listening to people of color“ includes listening to conservative people of color.
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Today is the 11-year anniversary of my emergency surgery to remove a brain tumor. God's goodness to me has been abundant and abundantly undeserved.
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Few things annoy me.
People who assume that "homeschooling is bad" annoy me.
Friends, I have a PhD in theoretical chemistry and my 8th grader is finishing up BC calculus. We're doing ok.
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1. Scripture, not lived experience, is our ultimate authority
2. Identity in Christ supersedes all other identities
3. Unequal outcomes are not necessarily unjust
4. People of color can be racist
5. Not all whites are racist
6. Not all norms should be dismantled
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I often hear "if the church had dealt properly with racism in the past, people wouldn't be embracing
#CriticalRaceTheory
today."
While I'm not sure that's true, it seems irrelevant. If CRT is false and dangerous we have to reject it, regardless of why it's popular.
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One of the marks of a cult is the control of information.
Certain books are permitted and certain books are forbidden. The cult is enlightened and outsiders are not. So if you talk to outsiders, their job is to listen and learn only, not challenge or disagree.
Cults are bad.
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My 9-year-old son did this in homeschool co-op for President’s Day:
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My 7-year-old was watching Iron Chef and he wanted me to “plate” his banana. I obliged.
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Never let compassion become an excuse for bad theology.
Never let good theology become an excuse for lack of compassion.
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Most evangelicals don't chafe at the idea that there are hard-to-understand texts in the Bible.
They chafe at the idea that the hard-to-understand texts just happen to be the ones that Christians have agreed on for 2000 years but which challenge progressive sensibilities
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We’re possibly the first culture in history that thinks adults need to submit to the wisdom of teenagers and not the other way around.
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Many religions --including Christianity-- believe in a Final Judgment.
But Christianity alone teaches that the Final Judge was judged in our place so that we who are unrighteous could be declared righteous, both now and eternally.
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It's not worth being on the wrong side of God to be on the "right side of history."
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Love the truth more than you love Trump.
Love the truth more than you hate Trump.
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When people realize that their death is imminent, they often begin asking questions like “what’s the purpose of life?” and “is there a God?”
But life is fragile and your death is always imminent. So ask those questions now.
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Never sacrifice truth on the altar of compassion. The latter cannot truly exist where the former is rejected.
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It is the moral duty of every Christian to value truth over their preferred narrative.
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It's grievous when genuine Christians, who will be rejoicing together for all eternity, are enemies here on earth.
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Christian, the last few days have provided you with yet another "masks off" moment.
Leave the group chat. Unfollow those accounts. Unsubscribe from the podcast. It's not worth it.
"Do not be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character.'" - 1 Cor. 15:33
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We're in the middle of a religious revival. But the religion is not Christianity.
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The argument that “abortion is morally permissible because God ordains miscarriages” is bizarre.
God ordains the death of literally every human being. It doesn’t follow that homicide is morally permissible.
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I had my biannual MRI today. Residual tumor has been stable (no growth) for 3 years now. Thanks to God for his faithfulness.
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Christian apologists are almost universally sounding the alarm over
#CriticalTheory
while pastors are not. Why?
My hypothesis is that apologists are analyzing the underlying ideas while pastors are concerned with relationships.
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As more and more parents are pulling their kids out of public school, Christian homeschool co-ops are becoming a tremendous evangelistic opportunity.
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Christians, remember that every single day: a couple's infant dies, a wife discovers her husband's affair, a man visits his elderly father with dementia, the cancer returns, the depression is still there.
This world is broken and life is short. Jesus is the only hope.
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"Women are going to find 'spiritual mothers,' one way or another. The only question is whether they'll find them in the church, or in the culture."-
@jenniferwilkin
(paraphrased) on the importance of women's discipleship
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THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DESTROY CONSPIRACY THEORIES ONCE AND FOR ALL IS BY GIVING A POWERFUL CABAL OF GLOBAL TECH OVERLORDS THE POWER TO SLIENCE ANYONE WHO QUESTIONS THEM!!!!!!!!
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Last week, I taught an apologetics boot camp for 100+ teenagers. During the Q&A about half the questions were about theology, not apologetics.
That’s fine, but it points to a deep need for both in youth ministry.
Don’t just entertain them with pizza parties. Train them.
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@timkellernyc
Could you clarify? Would this apply to Queer Theory or Neonazi ideology, i.e. don't criticize until you read *lots* of primary sources *and* work face-to-face with activists?
Also how do we prevent these criteria from becoming unachievable ("you haven't 'done the work' enough")?
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The primary line the Bible draws is not between those with power and those without it, but between those inside the Kingdom and those outside it.
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I am currently speaking to a professing Christian who has embraced a particular conception of systemic/structural sin.
He is now having trouble affirming that Jesus was *actually innocent and sinless during his life*.
Don't let your sociology wreck your theology.
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I've seen people scoff at the idea that kids might be hearing that it's bad to be white, so here's a short thread.
First, here's Robin DiAngelo in White Fragility saying “a positive white identity is an impossible goal” and “to be less white is to be less racially oppressive” 1/
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“I have a PhD, you commoner” is not a convincing argument.
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One underutilized strategy for resisting wokeness: just preach the gospel.
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The argument "you should love your neighbor; therefore, send your kids to public schools, even if they're bad" is a bad one.
If it sounds selfish to value the welfare of your children over some vague common good, consider the analogy of elderly parents: 1/
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No one needs to be specially trained to recognize the dangers of critical theory; we just need to have a solid grasp of theology.
Rather than asking "is this critical theory?" we need only ask "is this biblical?"
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