It is essential that the Church work for reconciliation and equality between races. But to support the Black Lives Matter movement is to work against that aim.
During this time of division and chaos, it is vital that the church stand for truth. I am grieved to see many pastors and congregations standing with an organization that works to counter so much of what we believe.
I believe that Christians who use the hashtag Black Lives Matter, or who attend the protests, mean well. After all, the statement “black lives matter” couldn’t be more true. In fact, it is essential that we as Christians advocate for the freedom and salvation of black lives, as we do all people.
By all means let us fight for racial reconciliation. By all means let us advocate for peace and unity for all races that can be found only around the cross of Christ. But to support the organization Black Lives Matter is to work against that aim.
To begin with, BLM proudly sanctions the work of Planned Parenthood, which kills thousands of black babies every year. In fact, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an advocate for eugenics.[1] In New York City, between 2012 and 2016, black mothers terminated 136,426 pregnancies and gave birth to 118,127 babies.[2]The rate of black babies aborted far surpasses those born alive. How can BLM say that they fight for black lives if they so obviously encourage the destruction of black unborn lives?
By all means let us fight for racial reconciliation. By all means let us advocate for peace and unity for all races that can be found only around the cross of Christ. But to support the organization Black Lives Matter is to work against that aim.
Not only does Black Lives Matter advocate for the destruction of thousands of black lives, but they also seek to dismantle the relationships that strengthen the black community. On the BLM website, they proudly declared, “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement…” and “We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk...”[4] These are their emphases, without ever mentioning black fathers. According to the 2012 U.S. census, 57.6% of black children live without a father in the home.[5] These children without a father are more likely to become incarcerated, have mental and emotional challenges, and struggle academically. Many black leaders emphasize that a lack of family structure is the biggest problem facing the black community.[6][7] Black Lives Matter actively works to destroy the most important relationships in the black community. Not only that, but the LGBTQ agenda is integral to their mission. This agenda works against the family relationships that are vital for the black community to thrive. Scripture teaches that the true expression of sexuality is marriage between a man and a woman. Now is the time to ask: Do you truly believe that? If so, you must not sanction the work of BLM.
Black Lives Matter actively works to destroy the most important relationships in the black community.
As if this is not all, we must now turn to the current demands of Black Lives Matter. In the face of police brutality, they call for the entire nation to “defund the police.”[9] Just to put this demand into perspective, let us consider: According to a Washington Post database, in the entire United States, 14 unarmed blacks were shot and killed by police in 2018.[10][11] A study by Statista Research Department found that in 2019 there were 7,407 black murder victims in the U.S.[12] That means that police shootings accounted for less than 0.002% of all African-American homicides. By far the greatest threat to black lives in the inner cities is not the police department, but a plague of violent crime. Without police to protect those lives, thousands more will be lost. In fact, since the BLM protests began back in June of 2020, inner cities including Louisville, Memphis, Portland, Spokane, Baltimore, and Chicago are experiencing record numbers of homicides. How many black lives, many of them children, will we place into jeopardy by our blind anger? Why does an organization that supposedly seeks to protect black lives actively work against the plight of thousands of souls?
Black Lives Matter is an organization that seeks to stir up division, rather than seek unity. They fight to destroy, rather than to build up. They support death, rather than life. They celebrate sin, rather than abhor it.
To walk with Black Lives Matter is to invite injustice, rather than denounce it. It is to fight contrary to Christian values of unity, peace, life, righteousness, and justice.
If we are to find peace and reconciliation in this dark world, it will only be around the cross of Christ. Now is the time to ask ourselves: do we really believe that the Gospel is powerful enough to cross racial divides? To reconcile people who have experienced hurt, pain, and hardship? Because the efforts that the rest of our nation is taking to redeem this aspect of culture are failing miserably. If we truly seek justice and righteousness, it will only be found in the one who has “broken down the dividing wall of hostility.”[14] In Ephesians, Paul pleads with the believers to remember that “there is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call--one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all…”[15] When are we going to remember that as members of the body of Christ, we are all despicable, and yet all redeemed into the family of God? Reparations have no part in the gospel. Church, do not walk blindly behind a movement that promises much, but does not deliver. Seek peace, not conflict. Seek unity, not division. Stand firm on the truth of Scripture. It is only through the power of the Spirit in the bond of peace that we will achieve the goal of oneness in the body of Christ.
[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/sangers-dropped-nyc-clinic-eugenics-71902405 [2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/lets-talk-about-the-black-abortion-rate-1531263697 [3] https://www.wheaton.edu/about-wheaton/community-covenant/ [4] https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/ [5] https://fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-extent-of-fatherlessness/ [6]https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/12/to-truly-reduce-racial-disparities-we-must-acknowledge-black-fathers-matter/ [7] https://www.uncletom.com/ [8] https://www.wheaton.edu/about-wheaton/community-covenant/ [9] https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/ [10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ [11] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883 [12] https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/ [13]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/01/portland-protesters-burn-bibles-american-flags-in-the-streets/ [14] Ephesians 2:14 [15] Ephesians 4:4
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