Black Lives Matter, but I won’t support #BlackLivesMatter
Before I write about how the #BLM movement is incompatible with Christianity, I must start with this. I personally have donated to George Floyd’s family, and I hope you would to. This is the go fund me link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd
That act of police brutality was absolutely disgusting, and we need reform. It was a total unnecessary abuse of power, and ultimately it was murder. No matter the past of Floyd, this act was inexcusable. I pray God has mercy on Floyd’s family and holds them close.
I would also like to clarify that this article is written for believers so it may not interest you if you don’t believe in Biblical principals, because the opposition to these principals from BLM is the reason I don’t align with their organization.
1. BLM openly aims to destroy the Biblical family structure. “We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, and especially “our” children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.” - This information is from the Guiding Principals on the BLM website. While unfortunately not every family member has a father and mother, being a child from a broken home I will advocate for the Biblical family God has given us. Psychological conditions, financial conditions, and spiritual consequences stem from the destruction of family. This ideology is just incompatible with Christianity.
2. I don’t perceive being heterosexual as negative, and neither does the Bible. “We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).” - Another quote from the BLM “what we believe” page.
3. Victim mentality. ““Reparations for…full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education…retroactive forgiveness of student loans, and support for lifetime learning programs.” In my life, I have been victimized and abused. However, an important lesson I learned started off with a revelation I heard while listening to Dan Mohler. “No one owes you anything”. I hold this standard to myself, and as Christians we are to die to ourselves. This is contrary to demanding repetitions from innocent people who had nothing to do with the horrific tragedies of old. This clip is one of many that shows the entitlement that is encouraged by the movement. https://youtu.be/p2iMM7m12zE
4. They are pro-abortion. ““We deserve and thus we demand reproductive justice [aka abortion] that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to thrive.” This is incompatible with the Biblical description of how God Himself forms us in our mother’s wombs, and how we have a purpose before we are born. BLM partners with planned parenthood financially, so when you make a donation, it very well may go to funding abortions.
5. Eulogies written for mass murderers who persecute Christians such as Fidel Castro: https://medium.com/@BlackLivesMatterNetwork/lessons-from-fidel-black-lives-matter-and-the-transition-of-el-comandante-c11ee5e51fb0#.raw9uqjhd
6. Donations to #blacklivesmatter do not go to those who have faced racial injustice and victimization, the donations go to the DNC. No founding member has commented on how donated finances are allocated. https://medium.com/@dtod95/the-black-lives-matter-organization-is-a-money-laundering-scheme-d11abba4547e
Do with this information what you will, but I personally am not comfortable aligning with a political party and donating to a campaign that doesn’t fit into the morality that comes from the Bible.
I would like to encourage all Christians to state that Jesus loves black lives, but not to share and spread the hashtag of #blacklivesmatter due to the political ties and anti-Biblical rhetoric, as it encourages others to fund this organization that is completely incompatible with Christianity. As Christians we absolutely have a responsibility to stand against injustice.
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people. But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Colossians 2:8 ESV See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Ephesians 4:14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
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