Deuteronomy 8:18 “Remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth.”

“Christian privilege has afforded the Christian majority historic and contemporary power to shape social norms. This ‘Christian normativity’ makes Christian values intrinsic to our national identity, conveys the status of truth and righteousness on Christian culture, and makes Christian theology the national standard.

This is from Khyati Joshi’s book ‘White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America,’ with this introduction provided on Amazon: “Religious minorities still struggle for recognition and for the opportunity to be treated as legitimate members of American society. Their scriptures and practices are viewed with suspicion. Centuries of Supreme Court rulings create structural disadvantages.”

Joshi, Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, goes on to tie ‘Christian privilege’ and ‘Christian normativity’ to a term he calls ‘Christian hegemony’: ‘Christian hegemony’ is the predominance and endorsement at the national level of Christian observances, beliefs, scriptures, and manners of worship. Christianity is embedded in our national laws, mores, and expectations as ‘regimes of truth.’”

Most of us have never heard of ‘hegemony.’ We better get educated. Our kids are being taught this and many other ‘Critical Theory truths’ that are focused on overthrowing America’s Christian foundation.

In their book ‘Critical Dilemma,’ Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer define ‘hegemony’ by quoting its founder, Italian neo-Marxist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937): “The key obstacle to a communist revolution was the ‘hegemony’ of the ruling class, the unquestioned dominance of ideas that reproduce the given society.”

Gramsci describes America’s Christian foundation as a form of ‘hegemonic power’: “Oppression and domination include ways in which dominant social groups impose their values, traditions, and norms on society such that they are accepted as natural, normal, even God-ordained. Contemporary Critical Theory highlights this oppression and domination as structural – it is applied via social institutions and systems.”

Gramsci’s indoctrination of hegemony in the early 1900’s is alive and well today in the teaching of Contemporary Critical Theory at our universities. Take, for example, University of Louisville Associate Professor Jacob P.K. Gross: “Concepts of hegemony enable us to appreciate how dominant groups manipulate symbols and images to maintain power. Such groups are defined and understood in terms of class, gender, race, sexual orientation, and so forth.” Hegemony is taught as acts of oppressing others.

Shenvi and Sawyer link 10 “Social Binaries” of Oppressed vs. Oppressor Groups that are taught in American universities today through Contemporary Critical Theory, all of which are outcomes of Gramsci’s work. Here we find Khyati Joshi’s statement on ‘Christian privilege’ in the form of ‘Christian hegemony.’

Gramsci’s Hegemony: 10 Social Binaries to be Overthrown by the Oppressed
Identity Marker Type of Oppression Oppressor Group Oppressed Group
Race Racism Whites People of Color
Class Classism The Rich The Poor
Biological Sex Sexism Men Women
Sexuality Heterosexism Heterosexuals Homosexuals
Gender Identity Cisgenderism Cisgender People Transgender People
Physical/Mental Ability Ableism The Able-Bodied People with Disabilities
Age Ageism/Adultism Adults The Elderly/Children
Religion Religious Oppression Christians Non-Christians
Colonial Status Colonialism Colonizers Indigenous People
Skin Color Colorism Light-skinned People Dark-skinned People

This week’s verse is part of Moses’s speech to Israel (Deuteronomy chapters 4-9) to remind them of their identity as God’s covenant people if they trust only in Him. The Bible also expands God’s chosen people to include all people of any ethnicity, gender, or social standing who trust their lives to Jesus Christ.

Christian hegemony is an assault on Christianity, to remove God and His Word in American culture and replace it with man’s wisdom. This attack is not new. But now, it is taught in our schools to our children.
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