In clips posted to social media, Bryan Loritts made a bizarre argument about race relations in the church. He says that white Christians are too fact-based and act like lawyers. Lortts advocated for white Christians to listen to racial conversations without responding. A multi-racial coalition pushed back on these outlandish claims and many expressed their anger at his remarks.
“Some of our white siblings in these race conversations, they want to push back, they want to offer a contrarian perspective, but the temperature’s so hot that many of my white siblings just keep their mouth shut,” he negan. ” I get it and you just stuff it, because I don’t want to be misunderstood and I don’t want to contribute. So we’re not, you’re not going to say anything.”
“So many of my people of color, siblings, man, I you know, there’s hurt there, and things have happened and, man, I don’t think this is a safe place for me to even talk about these things,” Lortiss argued. “The same people go to the same church, oftentimes sit on the same row, and we’re just not saying it, which means we have, we have. We have settled for the veneer of reconciliation.”
“Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, [and] this isn’t true,…sexual assault is a part of my wife’s story. And my wife and I are sitting there one night, and Harvey Weinstein comes up on TV, or Diddy, my wife goes berserk. She goes off,” he said. “She’s bearing her soul, and my response is, is everything always about sexual assault with you,
I’m feeling like you’re blaming me. I wasn’t a part of that that happened years ago, that wasn’t me.”
That’s not gonna go well for me,” he added additional context in another interview. “If I want oneness with my wife, I have to lean in and listen, even if I personally had nothing to do with it… African Americans are communal people. We immediately go level four. We’re grieving together. This is how we feel and for our white brothers and sisters to hang out in lawyer land, level two is not a recipe for unity or empathy or oneness.”
“It took me about five years of marriage to figure out when my wife comes to me in level four and I hang out lawyer land like that’s never worked well for explaining about what Right, right? And so if I want to experience oneness with my wife, I’m not saying there’s not a place for facts, right, but facts as a first resort,” he concluded. “While it may work in a court, it doesn’t work in the theater of human relationships.”
The online responses were largely negative. “This somehow manages to insult black people and white people at the same time. So, peak woke,” one account noted. “This was at my church. Parts of it were pretty cringe. I don’t know why they continue to give him a platform to speak,” another replied. “I forgot how cringe this guy is. He’s trapped in a woke time warp,” other users responded.
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Bryan Loritts, deputy pastor to J.D. Greear, is still peddling his June 2020 talking point about “racial reconciliation” that oddly presents black Christians as the proverbial wife, or weaker vessel, to white Christians.
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Another account said, “I’ve talked to many black people that don’t think I need to be reconciled to them. I didn’t do anything wrong to then and they don’t feel like the things from 150 or more years ago are on their radar.” “Can someone please tell me when what Loritts is talking about will no longer be an issue? I mean, when does this end? …churches all over the US apologized for months on end during 2020 for slavery and for the terrible treatment of black people,” a respondent pleaded.
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