I just ran through it. I'm sorry, it's absolute garbage, stuffed to the gills with the current redefinition of racism that explicitly creates racism as its goal.go read the source document from the SA instead of the hit piece
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Discussion Guide Preamble
The attached document is a voluntary discussion guide from the Interna-
tional Salvation Army. The tool has been provided through the Interna-
tional Social Justice Commission and is designed to stimulate gracious
discussion among Salvationists who choose to participate.
This discussion guide represents The Salvation Army’s desire for internal
dialogue. It is not a position or policy statement, and it does not replace,
supersede, or act as an addendum to The Salvation Army’s International
Positional Statement
It then goes onto say that the SA has made mistakes in the past, too bad other churches and faiths can't do the same
A major component of The Salvation Army’s
international mission statement is ‘... to preach
the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human
needs in his name without discrimination.’
However, we cannot truly serve our brothers and
sisters if we allow discrimination and racism to
happen around them or even within The Salvation
Army. Our International Position Statement1
reads, ‘The Salvation Army acknowledges with
regret, that Salvationists have sometimes shared
in the sins of racism and conformed to economic,
organisational and social pressures that
perpetuate racism.’, and challenges us to fight
against racism. As Salvationists and Christians,
we are called to stand against any form of sin or
oppression, and racism is no different.
The document says NOTHING about forcing anyone to do anything, it even says in the document churches are free to embrace the contents, or not, and it is not an official church position or document. It is meant as something to be used to teach people within their church, they are not forcing it on the world.
If you want to crap on a religious body being total leftists, start with the Roman Catholic Church... didn't I read recently they have a painting of George Floyd as Jesus hanging in one of their colleges?
If you want to read the SA document here is the link
I am not a religious person, on a good day I am a very lapsed Catholic, I did not leave the church, their positions are not the same ones I was raised on... they left me... and I do not consider myself the member of any faith.
But I drop a C note in the kettle every Christmas for no other reason than the work they do with addicts and alcoholics... they succeed when others can't or don't, and that is good enough for me to open my wallet
YMMV
From Appendix A:
Anti-racist: fighting against racism. Being antiracist results from a conscious decision to make frequent, consistent, equitable choices daily. These choices require ongoing self-awareness and self-reflection as we move through life. In the absence of making anti-racist choices, we (un)consciously uphold aspects of White supremacy, White-dominant culture, and unequal institutions and society. Being racist or anti-racist is not about who you are; it is about what you do. 48
This an explicit statement that if you don't agree and submit to the tenets of the current "anti-racist" religion, you are explicitly supporting racist actions. Also from Appendix A:
Racist: a person who belongs to a dominant or privileged group that discriminates against people of other races, or someone who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Note the shift here. Per the first half of the description, what you think and how you act are irrelevant. If you are a member of a group that is defined as dominant and acting against other races, you are a racist by definition. Solely being a member of the group defines you, regardless of your personal stances and actions. Note also that it excludes someone who can be defined as a member of a minority group. If someone who is not white went on a killing spree of only white people solely because the victims were white, the killer cannot be defined as a racist.This is bullshit on stilts. The rest of the document is more of the same.
I can't think of the last time I passed one of the kettles without donating. That time has now passed.