In our modern world there is a huge controversy which has been unseen by many.  The institutions of education are teaching student they are defined as a cross section of many different social collectives, this philosophy is called intersectionality.

Intersectionality puts each person in society into social subsections: race, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, disabilities, religion, heritage, class, language, education, and ethnicity. In each of these section, an identity is assumed, and the totality of groups give the person their identity.

Why is this philosophy dangerous? It is making these “subsections” the definition of who a person is. Why should the amount of melamine in our skin define who we are, should the shape of our eyes, nose, mouth or chin define us, or are they simply just attributes of us? Is our language, education, class, nationality and disability part of who we are? This is a huge question. Intersectionality is going far beyond making these attributes, but defining our inner person and then placing them into groups.

Groups that are victimized by other groups are ranked higher in privileged class, so by it’s very nature, we cling to attributes that make us feel more important, for example: being 1/16 Cherokee Indian, because the Native American’s were oppressed in the 19th Century. In This way people are choosing identities based upon being historically oppressed, verses just being an attribute of ones individual person hood.

When an person is a member of a subsection, they are merely an avatar of that subsection.  The membership of that subsection is, the identity they assume, and they must act it out according the elites of that subsection, but they are given clout and a sense of value for being a member.   It is the result of a biological evolutionary worldview that is trying to find reason in nihilism.   This philosophy denies the existence of a soul and treats members as units. This in essences is group think, where the collective defines for the subsection what a relevant world view should be.

In may ways, this worldview is rejecting the individual for the collective.  The members find meaning in groups, even though the premise of their group could be based on lies from the foundation. Also each member could actually be lying about their membership in each subsection, in order to find some purpose or significance. Again, it’s not attributes, but definitions, and that is a big difference.

This is completely opposed to the Biblical Christian Worldview, we are each unique and specially created in God’s universe, and we each have different attributes which make us unique and special. Race, is a construct and isn’t even Christian, but Evolutionary, since Christians believe in a common ancestors: Adam, Eve, and Noah. As Bible believing Christians, we don’t see the color of ones skin, or the characteristics of ones body as defining ones soul. I think it was Martin Luther King, Jr. who said it best:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.  

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christians see each individual as imago dei, or made in the image of God.  We believe each individual has an eternal soul, not a unit in a collective. These things are attributes of who we are, not things that define us. In this fallen world, sin abounds. The removal of God words from our foundation of knowledge, it makes the world a confusing place. The fallen world is trying to make sense of the pain, oppression, sin and guilt, but they have no footing to base that idea since they’ve destroyed the Christian foundations.

As people with a Christian worldview interact with the world, we must familiarize ourselves with these ideas, they are a sinful way of finding meaning.  Many of our own children are following those roads, because they are being taught in modern higher educational institutions. The ideas are even creeping into the church in terms like “Social Justice”, which have desire to divide rather than unite.

Our focus should always be the individual, never the group! Our focus should be reaching a fallen and sinful world, that has rejected the ideas of sin, and replaced them as defining factors. For a Christian, it’s not sin, oppression, abuse, pain or guilt that define who we are, but it’s Christ and His work on the Cross. As a christian, there is no division among us! We are united in Christ, Brothers and Sisters of the heavenly Father. We are all sinners, Saved by Grace alone!

²³ Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. ²⁴ So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, ²⁶ for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.²⁷ For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave^[g] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

Galations 3:23-29