If ever there were an example of how major charities have lost their way, it's this survey from Christian Aid.
Question 1: Are you Male/Female/Transgender/Non-binary/Queer/Other?
They've created so many gender categories that some people will fit into more than one category...and oddly don't include 'prefer not to say'.
Rather than attack this as being 'woke', there's a more direct problem: they describe themselves as 'Christian' Aid. Whilst of course I respect people's decisions to live their own lives, there's absolutely nothing 'Christian' about going completely against the Bible's teaching on gender. In other words, believe what you want - but don't describe yourself as a Christian if you're going to hold to views which are in direct contradiction to Christianity.
Question 3 asks about gender inequality (Q2 is just an age category). There are countries in the world where there exists serious discrimination against women; Afghanistan is the most topical at present.
It provides three examples of 'gender inequality', and asks you to choose which of them 'resonates' with you most. The problem is that the definitions fall under a broadly Marxist world-view. What about those of us who do not identify as Marxist?
Question 4 is the only one in the whole survey which allows any possibility that respondents might hold to a different view, asking about gender inequality in the UK.
Question 5 references a list of situations in which gender inequality may exist around the world, and asks you to choose which one matters most to you. It's notable that every single one of them refers to women and girls. Globally, it's true that women and girls face more discrimination overall than men and boys. However, it is wrong to simply ignore the existence of situations in which men and boys face discrimination. Think, for example, of custody hearings after a divorce. Or conscription. Or criminal justice sentencing. There is a difference in magnitude, of course, but if you're opposed to injustice then you should oppose all injustice and not just some.
Question 6 follows on. It's notable that one of the options includes "reproductive health", a code word for abortion, which (whatever your views on the subject politically) is antithetical to Christianity (Psalm 139 for example). For a charity professing to be Christian to push such an agenda stretches the definition of Christian. Again, the same bias as Question 5.
Question 7 asks about global gender equality over the past ten years, in such a broad way as to make any response meaningless.
Question 8 mentions a list of projects supported by Christian Aid. "Supporting women in Ethiopia to increase their involvement in household decision making", "Strengthening the roles of rural women in Kenya to lead projects that tackle climate change" and "Increasing the involvement of LGBT+ and Indigenous women in Colombia's national peace process" all scream 'wokery'. Why? Because if you hold to an alarmist view of the pace of change of the global climate (mine is more nuanced: I believe there are better ways of improving renewables), then rural Kenya isn't exactly going to make a big difference. Singling out LGBT+ women in Colombia's national peace process is said to "strengthen" it, without making it clear what exactly that means. Should everyone be involved in peace? Of course. Does choosing a specific gender and sexuality reduce the risk of war? And as for 'household decision-making', there are perhaps far more pressing problems for charities to work on in Ethiopia!
Only at the very end do you come to a clear, unambiguous issue: the undermining of women's rights in Afghanistan. But, of course, you're invited to choose your top *two* issues not your top *one*.
There seems to be a yawning chasm between the reasons people donate to charity, and the work which some charities do.
One of the main 'achievements' which Christian Aid boasts about on its website is that they 'supported advocacy work in Zambia' contributing to 'a 40% gender quota for candidates'.
It's so heart-breaking to see this happen, to see organisations peddling Marxism and wokery whilst claiming to be Christian.
Christian Aid are even sponsoring this 'survey' through Facebook. Does anyone really donate to charity so that they can put sponsored ads on Facebook for a biased survey?
The comments on their FB advert are almost exclusively negative, with people cancelling their donations left, right and centre. So disappointing, and it's so difficult to find national and international charities which I can actually support. The survey can be found at the link below.
Blogger: I know the author of this piece and am impressed. I stopped supporting Tear Fund for a fraction of these abominations!
Christians cannot support charities which are, in essence, marxist!
