What about Diversity?

Several years ago, before the expression became well-used and familiar, I was standing at the Customer Service counter at Kroger Food Store. I saw on the sign behind the worker that Kroger promotes “diversity.” This, perhaps, was the first time I was brought face to face with this term!

Although I was probably somewhat naïve about this terminology, I could see that this supposedly positive label was actually a very negative, wicked, and evil term that every Christian should avoid. The term has now become commonplace.

The word itself may be defined as “the fact or quality of being diverse; difference.” Also, “a point or respect in which things differ” and “variety or multiformity.” (The American Heritage College Dictionary.) In common parlance, people who claim to promote “diversity” mean that they allow, promote, and advocate all sorts of perversion! They surely promote the evils of sodomy (misnamed the “gay” lifestyle). They promote fornication, adultery, transvestism, transgenderism, and probably before long they will endorse pedophilia! Some are doing this already!

Thus, to the Christian who is rooted in Scripture—God’s own written word—we must clearly and emphatically condemn the “diversity” experience. Actually, diversity is an attempt to make a negative lifestyle into a positive one. It changes something evil into something good, positive, and even desirable! Who wouldn’t want diversity!

God allows people to prefer certain colors (glue, red, green, etc). He allows people to prefer different pets and animals (dogs, cats, birds, horses, etc.). He is responsible for different genders (male and female) and different ages (e.g. 8, 14, 37, 92, etc). In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul emphasizes that God Himself is responsible for the “diversity” in the body of Christ in giving His people different abilities or gifts (see 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 12-30).

We know that Kroger didn’t have this in mind, but we must not condemn all diversity. However, in the general parlance of today, we must object to and even condemn “diversity” as promoting a wicked activity, a wicked view of things, and a wicked lifestyle. It has no positive use in the Christian’s vocabulary.