Partridge Draws Criticism
Partridge’s post has generated significant engagement, including numerous critical responses.
“This might be the most ‘delete your account and go to therapy’ post of all time,” responded Christianity Today senior contributor Mike Cosper.
Author and theologian Dr. Anthony Bradley said, “This man threw his wife under the bus in order to maintain his in-group status as ‘one of the guys’ in a pseudo-Christian subculture that many would argue is actually a cult. Yes, his own wife. Tribalism blinds.”
Kyle Mann, editor-in-chief of The Babylon Bee, quipped, “My wife is Mexican and if I told her our marriage was ‘not the ideal’ id [sic] get a chancla thrown at me.”
Author and theologian Dr. Owen Strachan wrote, “Theological truths about interethnic marriage: 1. It’s not sinful. 2. It’s not against nature. 3. It’s an enfleshment of gospel unity, as the gospel unites Jew and Gentile in Christ (Eph. 2). 4. ‘Race’ doesn’t exist; there is one human race (Acts 17:26). 5. Kinism is falsehood.”
Partridge reposted Strachan’s post with a picture of himself on a Valentine’s Day card that read, “You’re less than ideal.”
Christian writer and podcaster Ameen Hudson wrote, “Aside from humiliating his family and dressing up race essentialism with false theological justification, it’s even more crazy that he is talking about multicultural and multiethnic relationships as if it’s a disability.”
“NOWHERE in scripture is multicultural or multiethnic relationships framed this way—in fact, it’s quite the opposite,” Hudson argued. “God NEVER called [Christians] to maintain and protect their mono-ethnic culture into the eschaton. He actually did things to intentionally disrupt it.”
“Everything that Webbon and Dale are expressing here is their OWN racist social philosophy dressed up as theological truth,” said Hudson. “They’re just twisting theological concepts and using it as a vehicle for their carnal philosophies and pseudoscience of race. All their appeals to biology to justify “race” as scientifically factual also fails under scrutiny.”
“I don’t like to say history repeats itself—because things aren’t always happening EXACTLY the same as the past—but history does rhyme,” Hudson went on to say. “Webbon and Dale are rhyming with the same race essentialism, pseudoscience and false racial theology of the past.”
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“It’s sad and foolish,” Hudson added. “Thankfully, many are not falling for it.”
