Mini Pro­file: Chris But­ler

This mini pro­file was made as part of our look at the “2024 Exiles in Baby­lon Con­fer­ence” and Max Lucado’s involve­ment in that con­fer­ence. Click here for the main arti­cle on that sto­ry.

Chris But­ler by his own admis­sion is a “ser­i­al orga­niz­er” hail­ing from the South­side of Chica­go. He cur­rent­ly leads Chica­go Embassy Church Net­work and is the senior pas­tor of Chica­go Embassy Church in the Engle­wood com­mu­ni­ty of Chica­go. But­ler co-authored “Com­pas­sion and Con­vic­tion: The AND Cam­paigns Guide To Faith­ful Civic Engage­ment” with Justin Giboney and Micheal Wear.

1. Orga­nized for Barack Oba­ma
   • In 2004, Chris “reg­is­tered and mobi­lized young vot­ers as the Youth and Young Adult Coor­di­na­tor on Barack Obama’s 2004 Cam­paign for U.S. Sen­ate.” Oba­ma would go on to be one of the most anti-Amer­i­can pres­i­dents, whose impact we’re still feel­ing deeply today.
2. Advo­cates for “Guar­an­teed Basic Income” and “uni­ver­sal health­care” AKA Social­ism
   • In a piece for the Chica­go Tri­bune, Chris argued for a “guar­an­teed basic income,” which is a form of wealth dis­tri­b­u­tion. Mon­ey is heav­i­ly taxed from all, then a small por­tion is giv­en back. All this amounts to is gov­ern­ment steal­ing that leaves every­one poor­er. His advo­ca­cy for social­ism dose not end there, as in a cam­paign video, he would advo­cate for “uni­ver­sal health­care.” Again, all that is, is gov­ern­ment steal­ing, leav­ing every­one poor­er and less capa­ble of access­ing prop­er health­care, or mak­ing per­son­al health­care deci­sions.
3. Ran as a Demo­c­rat, sup­ports “LGBT+” leg­is­la­tion
   • Chris ran for US con­gress in 2022 as a Demo­c­rat. In his cam­paign video, he states that he sup­ports leg­is­la­tion that pro­tects “LGBT rights.” This is strange, since there are not rights that “LGBT” peo­ple do not have in this coun­try. The only “rights” they are lack­ing, are spe­cial pro­tec­tions, the abil­i­ty to per­se­cute those who dis­agree with them, and the abil­i­ty to “mar­ry” mem­bers of the oppo­site sex. But even those things aren’t true, as all of those gov­ern­ment grant­ed priv­i­leges and pro­tec­tions are ones they have. This is a com­mon lie by peo­ple to jus­ti­fy their sup­port of sex­u­al devian­cy.
4. Author of Com­pas­sion (&) Con­vic­tion for the AND Cam­paign
   • He is also coau­thor of the book “Com­pas­sion (&) Con­vic­tion” for the “woke” orga­ni­za­tion, the AND Cam­paign. The book, the orga­ni­za­tion, and Chris, pro­mote ideas such as Crit­i­cal Race The­o­ry, even by name. Here are two basic quotes from the book to help illus­trate that point.
     • …the church should be lead­ing the way. We can under­stand and appre­ci­ate iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics, inter­sec­tion­al­i­ty, and crit­i­cal race the­o­ry. (p 101)
     • …even well-mean­ing peo­ple and insti­tu­tions engage in prac­tices that repro­duce and rein­force neg­a­tive out­comes such as seg­re­ga­tion, dis­ad­van­tages for minori­ties in the job mar­ket, and the por­tray­al of white­ness as supe­ri­or in pub­lic com­mu­ni­ca­tions and enter­tain­ment (p 98)

Chris But­ler is some­one who is will­ing to part­ner with baby mur­ders, enshrine sex­u­al devian­cy into law, and pro­motes Marx­ist ideas. Why is this man speak­ing to Chris­tians? This is not the type of per­son we should be ask­ing about how a Chris­t­ian should han­dle church and pol­i­tics as he does­n’t under­stand either of those things, Bib­li­cal­ly speak­ing.