Solomon's Window: The Breonna Taylor "Story"

The grand jury decision on Breonna Taylor is now the most recent "story" of police injustice. It has refueled the social justice movement, turning the city streets of Louisville, Kentucky into a war zone. 

Through isolated stories and emotionally-driven "wisdom", today's Critical Race Theory and the Black Lives Matter movement concern themselves chiefly with trying to answer the age-old question, "Why is there so much injustice in the world?" Consequently its members are left with delusional answers that leave them frustrated, taking them to the streets in protest; they claim to have no time for actual life. 

CRT - Critical Race Theory's story-based protests appeal, in particular, to young white millennial women fresh out of college and full of social gospel ideals  about the way life should be. They often are the ones found leading the charge because of their natural instinctive emotional sympathy toward the plight of the oppressed. As a result, they often become the real victims of injustice by the "wisdom stories" of the BLM movement.

The Wisdom of the Bible, in contrast, concerns itself with practical life, and recognizes that the basis of things is tragic. The Bible attitude to practical life is lost on most of us because we are far away from the rooted and grounded confidence in the God of the Bible. The tragic result is a whole generation being shipwrecked by the prevailing winds of the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Christians have failed in teaching this generation to think on Bible lines mainly because we ourselves for the most part only think on pagan lines. Only in our emotional life do we dabble in the things of God; consequently when we are hard hit, our faith finds us dumb.  Or, if we do talk, we talk as pagans.

In today's world of identity politics there is a contempt for anyone who believes in the Book of Genesis for it contradicts their entire system of grievance.  But suddenly now the violence, hatred, and anarchist motives of Black Lives Matter have hit us a fair blow with the most recent response to the Breonna Taylor verdict.  If we take the time to be honest with ourselves, we might discover that we should not talk so glibly, nor should we be so certain that the "social justice" platform of BLM is right.  And perhaps we should not be so insolent in our attitude to the Bible standpoint. For it is only then that we can begin to be prepared to think. 

Breonna Taylor's death by the police was tragic and unjust; her cruel death ought not to have happened. But, the Bible has no sympathy with saying things ought not to be as they are. The practical thing is to look at things as they are. What is the use of saying there ought to be no injustice, in the meantime there is! There ought to be no war, there is! There ought to be no violence, there is! 

Should we post a BLM black square on Instagram and actively protest on the streets? We should never waste our time in that way; the Bible says these things are.   We can ignore facing them - or we can face them in a way which will lead us either to despair or to the Cross of Jesus Christ.