Saturday, August 15, 2020

Same as new wine in old wineskins …

… Wokeness: old religion in a new bottle - spiked. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

We live in just the strangest times. But understanding the historical roots of these radicals as post-Protestant, and understanding the spiritual hunger which has no outlet for them, helps us to explain it. This is what happens when you have a Mainline outlook that is broken loose from all of its prior constraints. These ideas used to be corralled in the churches. If you let an idea like Original Sin – that’s a dangerous and powerful idea – loose from its corral, it goes to a place where it can exist, which is politics. One of the great dangers is that religious ideas are in politics. The line that I use is that, if you believe that your ordinary political opponents are not merely mistaken, but are evil, you have ceased to do politics and begun to do religion.

3 comments:

  1. If people like that get the bit between their teeth, who knows what they might do? Might they decide that Hillary Clinton arranged the murder of Vincent Foster and spend a great deal of time, energy, and fuss trying to prove the theory?

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  2. I think they already tried that.

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  3. I think they already tried that.

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