BLM and the Parable of the Lost Sheep
Our Lord’s Parable of the Lost Sheep is a common talking point oriented against the expression “All Lives Matter.”
Saying “All Lives Matter” is offensive to those who advocate for #BlackLivesMatter. And their hostility, sometimes violent, to this expression, speaks volumes. For why do black lives matter? Not because they’re black, but because they are human lives, souls created in the image of God. It isn’t their blackness, but rather their humanity, that truly matters.
Skin color is an accident; humanity is the substance.
And the idea that All Lives Matter is dangerous to the left, for it not only violates their Unholy Desacrament of Infanticide, it also cuts to the heart of the folly of identity politics, which attempts to create levels of supremacy within the human family based on accidents as opposed to substance. BLM is anti-Christian at its very root, not by asserting the sacredness of black lives, but by their assertion of the sacredness of the accident of dark skin.
BLM is also Marxist and anti-family, pushing an agenda of deviant sexuality - which has nothing to do with the amount of melanin in the skin or ancestral origins from the continent of Africa.
This meme is a popular talking point dedicated to quashing the confession that All Lives Matter. It is trotted out like a trump card or a forced checkmate in two moves. But it is based on an abuse of the very Scriptures that BLM repudiates to begin with.
Our Lord’s Parable of the Lost Sheep is a metaphor, that when applied to blacks, is rather insulting, if not a reinforcement of racist tropes. Using this passage of Scripture as a proof text for BLM is to play right into the hands of white supremacism.
In the parable, 99 sheep are where they are supposed to be, following God’s created order - obeying the law, if you will. For sheep naturally flock, and it is in the flock that sheep find protection from predators. The Latin word for “to wander” is “errare” - from where we get the word “error.” The errant sheep is foolish rather than wise. The errant sheep makes a stupid decision that subjects himself to victimhood. The errant sheep is rebelling against God’s created order, because he thinks he knows better. The errant sheep is foolish, like a child, lacking the wisdom normally acquired by age and life experience. In the parable, what makes the sheep errant is that he needs to repent.
And in the parable, the shepherd is forced to leave the 99 obedient sheep to seek and save the foolish errorist. And of course, the shepherd does - because He is the Shepherd, the Good Shepherd. He seeks out the sinner, the wanderer, the rebel, the fool, the one who thinks he knows better than God - and He goes after him (meaning “us”) to save him (meaning “us”).
Of course, we are all the errant sheep in the parable. That’s the point of the story. It is about Jesus and His sacrifice on the cross to save sinners.
The parable is not about supporting a Marxist, anti-family organization dedicated to intersectional anthropology and unbiblical sexuality.
To cast black people as the “villain” (of which all of us actually are) in the Lord’s parable is rather condescending. It suggests that black people are not law abiding, are childish and foolish, and because of their folly, they are subject to victimhood. Moreover, resources that could be dedicated to the law abiding majority have to be diverted to save the minority from himself. Could the Ku Klux Klan have written a more racist trope?
Moreover, consider the hypocrisy of BLM resorting to the Bible. According to its own statement of beliefs, BLM affirms:
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
“Cisgender” is the neologism they use to mean sexually normal people who confess the Scriptural view of human sexuality and the created order of male and female.
What does Scripture teach about sexuality? Do they really want to employ the Bible as a talking point? Interestingly, no BLM supporters are quoting Romans 1:24-28 as a talking point. Nor Leviticus 18:22. Nor Leviticus 20:13. Nor 1 Corinthians 6:9. Nor 1 Timothy 1:8-10 (in which homosexuals are equated with “enslavers”). BLM is incompatible with Christianity by its repudiation of the Sixth Commandment.
BLM is also openly Marxist, which seeks to abolish private property, a violation of the Seventh Commandment - not to mention the Ninth. Marxist governments universally become enemies of the cross and oppressors of the Church - as they cannot abide the First Commandment either. Marxism is responsible for at least a hundred million deaths, not to mention Marxism’s universal support of abortion, which is also a violation of the Fifth Commandment as well.
But BLM and its adherents are going to use the Bible to try to convince you not to believe, teach, and confess that “All Lives Matter.”
Finally, this particular meme was shared and endorsed by Qasim Rashid, a Virginia Democrat activist and wannabe politician, who is not only Muslim, but a member of the Ahmaddiyya sect (his father is a “missionary” who came to the United States), which believes Jesus lies dead in a particular tomb in India, that the prophecies concerning the Second Coming don’t apply to Jesus, and that Islam will enjoy a final victory in this world.
So, is this the guy whom some leftist Christians believe should be interpreting the Bible and the parables of Jesus for them? Can you imagine if Christian politicians were lecturing Muslims about what their Koran really means and how they should interpret it? Rashid was born in Pakistan, a ruthlessly Islamic state that treats Christians worse than dirt, where they are routinely imprisoned for false crimes against the false prophet.
Shame on Christians who support such a Luciferian inversion and mockery of the truth, and their use of the Holy Scriptures in so doing.
All Lives Matter, because we are all created in God’s image and redeemed by Christ. And if that be treason, make the most of it.