CRT, DEI, and Secular Power: How Ideology Replaced Faith and Fractured the West

Why has the nation fallen? Atheism and liberals are to blame. Yep, I said it. Now, let's take a look at the evidence. Western civilization did not collapse because of invasion or famine. It weakened from the inside (atheists hate god, who they say does not exist lol) when transcendent truth was replaced by ideology, and moral authority (them, man) was shifted from God to the state (the self and lording over others, socialists and commies). Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion frameworks, and militant atheistic secularism did not arise in isolation. They emerged from a long policy trajectory that removed God from public life, redefined justice as power (something they could seize), and replaced family responsibility with bureaucratic management (they tell you how to raise your family). The damage has been cultural, educational, and deeply personal (self-hate), especially within the Black American community.

The Removal of God from Schools Was Not Neutral

As we look back, we will see that for most of American history, public education was grounded in morality (atheists are immoral). That changed decisively in the 20th century through court action driven by organized secular activism. Remember, they hate the god that does not exist.

In Engel v. Vitale (1962), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state-composed prayer in public schools was unconstitutional. Justice Hugo Black wrote: “It is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for any group of the American people.”

One year later, in Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), Bible reading was removed from public schools. Justice Tom Clark stated: “The place of religion in our society is an exalted one, achieved through a long tradition of reliance on the home, the church, and the inviolable citadel of the individual heart and mind.”

The ruling did not remove religion from culture. It removed it from formation. Schools stopped teaching moral absolutes (the white liberal and atheist want to live like animals) rooted in Scripture and shifted toward value neutrality, which in practice became value substitution. Something always fills the vacuum.

That vacuum was later filled by identity ideology.

CRT Replaced Moral Law with Power Analysis

Critical Race Theory does not argue for equality under the law. It rejects it.

Legal scholar Derrick Bell, one of CRT’s founders, wrote in Faces at the Bottom of the Well:

“Racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of this society.”

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic stated in Critical Race Theory: An Introduction: “The critical race theory movement is a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.”

Now, notice the absence of reconciliation, forgiveness, or shared moral responsibility. They are an army advancing with hate, not love. CRT frames society as a perpetual conflict between oppressor and oppressed people. This is not biblical justice. It is Marxist struggle theory applied to race.

Martin Luther King Jr. explicitly rejected this framework. In his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail, he wrote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Later, in 1964, he warned: “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro.”

They are not saying what he said. The left often abuses that statement. King was speaking about restoring equal opportunity, not enforcing permanent grievance identity. He repeatedly affirmed moral law grounded in God, not power.

DEI Rejected Merit and Reintroduced Racial Sorting

DEI programs claim inclusion. Their method is categorization.

In 2020, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture released a DEI chart defining traits such as hard work, rational thinking, and individualism as “white culture.” After public backlash, the chart was quietly removed.

This was not a mistake. It was the logical extension of CRT.

Thomas Sowell, an economist and Black intellectual, warned decades earlier: “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” Discrimination and Disparities

He also stated: “The real question is not whether discrimination exists, but whether it is more harmful than the remedies offered.”

DEI remedies sorting people by race, not character or competence. That is regression, not progress.

Secular Welfare Policy Replaced Fathers with the State

The most devastating impact of progressive secular policy was not symbolic. It was structural.

The welfare state expanded rapidly under Franklin D. Roosevelt and later Lyndon Johnson. While intentions were often framed as compassion, incentives told a different story.

Before 1960, the Black illegitimacy rate was under 25 percent. After the Great Society welfare expansions, it rose above 70 percent.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat and future Senator, warned in The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965): “The fundamental problem is that of family structure. The evidence is strong that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling.”

He was ignored.

Thomas Sowell later wrote: “Welfare did not create poverty. It created dependency.”

The Vision of the Anointed

Policies tied benefits to the absence of a working male in the home. The state became a provider. Fathers became optional. Churches lost influence. Bureaucracy gained power.

Malcolm X saw this coming even earlier. In 1963, he stated: “The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man.”

He was not speaking about race. He was talking about control disguised as help.

Atheistic Secularism Did Not Free Society. It Reprogrammed It.

The claim that removing God creates neutrality is false. It establishes a replacement.

When biblical authority left education, it was replaced with relativism. When moral law left justice behind, it was replaced by grievance metrics. When family responsibility weakened, government dependency expanded.

Nietzsche warned of this outcome long before CRT or DEI existed: “When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one’s feet.”

The West kept the language of justice but abandoned its foundation.

The Crisis Is Not Race. It Is Authority.

Do not think that CRT and DEI destroyed the West on its own. Oh, no, they are symptoms of a more profound rupture. It was the rejection of God and the removal of a shared moral compass. The state stepped in to define virtue. Power replaced principle. Identity replaced character.

Scripture warned about this pattern. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18

Those of us in the West are not suffering from a lack of compassion. Oh, they show much love, as we saw with Martha’s Vineyard. What we are suffering from is a loss of truth. Until moral authority is restored above the state, policy will continue to fracture families, education will continue to divide children, and justice will continue to mean power rather than righteousness.

Restoration does not begin with ideology. It starts with repentance, responsibility, and the return of moral law.

Thanks for reading.