[__ Science __ ] Wokeness is a Secular Religion with no true Morals.

[reddogs]

This is very interesting and makes sense...

""Wokeness" has become so pervasive across America's institutions from schools to corporations that author Vivek Ramaswamy argues it meets the Supreme Court test for religion.

"Wokeness is a secular religion. It isn't a religion based on God. It isn't a religion that offers a path to redemption, but it is a secular religion nonetheless," Ramaswamy, author of Woke, Inc. tells CBN News.

In his new book, Ramaswamy lays out legal solutions for people who've been fired for not ascribing to this religion of wokeness.

"When you have a moral vacuum that runs that deep, that's when secular dark religions like wokeness start to fill the void as we have seen the things that used to fill that void: patriotism, faith, hard work on the decline or nearly disappearing ? that's what allows 'woke-ism' to effectively become opium for the American soul," Ramaswamy explains....

He proposes adding political speech and belief to the list of protected classes, which he says is needed to fight a form of discrimination reaching scary heights.

"In my opinion, it is certainly far more rampant than racial discrimination which we instead obsess over and we need to apply those standards evenhandedly," he says.

And now as multi-national American companies like Coke, Disney, and Nike impose this new religion ? he says foes like China are benefiting at the expense of the United States. "What they've recognized is that American wokeness ? they even have a word for it ? this is cultural weakness."

Because he says, America's greatest asset on the national stage isn't our military might, it's our moral standing.

"They get companies like Disney, or Nike, or associations like the NBA or celebrities like LeBron James to criticize the United States relentlessly about alleged social injustice but they do not say a peep in China ? in fact, many of them actually praise China and the reason they do it is because that is their condition to be allowed to enter the Chinese market."

And he says the hypocrisy is astounding.

"One of them is Disney's hypocrisy, in particular, saying they could not shoot a film in the state of Georgia if Georgia passed an anti-abortion statute ? the equivalent of a heartbeat bill a couple of years ago but last year they shoot Mulan in the Xingjiang province of China literally ground zero of the Uighur human rights crisis and not only do they stay silent ? at the end of the film they actually praise China ? they thank the Xingjiang authorities at the end of the film in the credits ? you can see it today. Those are the same authorities who are responsible for enslaving the Uighurs," he says.

Tech companies, he says, are also using the woke corporate culture to their advantage.

"What you're seeing right now especially in big tech is big government is now dispatching big tech to do through a back door what it could not directly do under the constitution ? namely to censor political speech and alleged hate speech and misinformation that it did not like to see online."

All while enjoying legal protection from liability. In his book, Ramaswamy argues ? if tech companies are acting as agents of the state, then they should be bound by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

He hopes his book will help Americans wake up and realize what's at stake."...... https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/wokene...nes-light-dangers-woke-corporate-culture

 

[Milk-Drops]

Won't ever happen. There is no solid definition of wokeness/wokeism and whenever any person who talks out against it is cornered into defining it, it just ends up being a vague mess of whatever the person is against.

It's just culture war politics to distract people from the fact real issues and problems exist.

 

[reddogs]

Won't ever happen. There is no solid definition of wokeness/wokeism and whenever any person who talks out against it is cornered into defining it, it just ends up being a vague mess of whatever the person is against.

It's just culture war politics to distract people from the fact real issues and problems exist.

And some are taking it past that to almost a core belief, the beginning of what starts people grouping together to teach it.

 

[Christ_empowered]

I dunno

When dissent becomes this mainstream it’s more like declawed ineffective resistance.

 

[reddogs]

And here is more from another author.. “Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel—and the Way to Stop It,” Strachan does a deep dive into critical race theory, and what he calls wokeness. He concludes: “Wokeness is not just not the Gospel. Wokeness is anti-Gospel.”

The reason Strachan’s analysis is so important is that wokeness is not a simple knot to unravel. As he explains, “Historical sins sit heavy upon us.”

The sins of slavery and the institutionalized racism of Jim Crow and segregation are very real. In spite of the false accusation that we don’t teach honest history in the United States, I would argue there isn’t an American alive today who is not keenly aware of the sins of the past and of the long difficult journey toward the Founders’ ideal of a nation in which all men are created equal.... Strachan unpacks just how misguided and destructive wokeness is in a 14-point critique. At its simplest, the critique can be summed up in his simple formula: “In this system of wokeness, there is no grace and no love.”

But as wokeness seeps into America’s churches, it is vital that Christians educate themselves and understand just how antithetical wokeness is to the message of salvation through Jesus Christ.

Indeed, Strachan concludes that wokeness is a new religion, with no creator, libertine sexuality, all trust in the state to rule us, and salvation derived from anti-racism." Hijacking Christianity: Why 'Wokeness Is Anti-Gospel'

It seems others see it, and its not only a secular religion, but one that is being pushed by the state which is turning more 'godless' and lawless and making us grasp a false man made ideals which cannot be reached as long as sin exists. And since they do not believe in God and thus true good (and the evil which conflicts against it), they cannot find a real solution. Thats what we are seeing in this 'secular religion' which is being 'indoctrinated' in our schools, on our children, and young people, and even from the highest office.

 

[Barbarian]

Won't ever happen. There is no solid definition of wokeness/wokeism and whenever any person who talks out against it is cornered into defining it, it just ends up being a vague mess of whatever the person is against.

It's just culture war politics to distract people from the fact real issues and problems exist.

Today's winner. "Woke" has become the racist version of "the boogeyman."

 

[Barbarian]

critical race theory (CRT), intellectual and social movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of the United States insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Critical race theorists are generally dedicated to applying their understanding of the institutional or structural nature of racism to the concrete (if distant) goal of eliminating all race-based and other unjust hierarchies.

Critical race theory (CRT) | Definition, Principles, & Facts | Britannica

Critical race theory, intellectual and social movement and framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is a socially constructed category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of...

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The demonstrably true parts are emphasized. Everything else, is stuff racists invented and called "woke" or "CRT." Institutional/structural racism has been declining in America since the Civil Rights Act, but has not been eradicated.

An example is a study of police behavior, in which it was found that black motorists were much more likely to be stopped and have their cars searched, even though whites were more likely to have contraband in their vehicles. Supporting this was data showing that the disaparity was much less at night, when it was harder to tell the race of the driver.

This is not due to police officers being evil racists, but to department policies that produced such results. Lambasting police for this problem would be useless; instead of shaming people, it's more effective to look at the institutional structures that drive the racist behavior. It's a more effective way to address the problem.

Which is why there's such frantic efforts by racists to derail the idea.

 

[reddogs]

critical race theory (CRT), intellectual and social movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of the United States insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Critical race theorists are generally dedicated to applying their understanding of the institutional or structural nature of racism to the concrete (if distant) goal of eliminating all race-based and other unjust hierarchies.

Critical race theory (CRT) | Definition, Principles, & Facts | Britannica

Critical race theory, intellectual and social movement and framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is a socially constructed category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of...

www.britannica.com

The demonstrably true parts are emphasized. Everything else, is stuff racists invented and called "woke" or "CRT." Institutional/structural racism has been declining in America since the Civil Rights Act, but has not been eradicated.

An example is a study of police behavior, in which it was found that black motorists were much more likely to be stopped and have their cars searched, even though whites were more likely to have contraband in their vehicles. Supporting this was data showing that the disaparity was much less at night, when it was harder to tell the race of the driver.

This is not due to police officers being evil racists, but to department policies that produced such results. Lambasting police for this problem would be useless; instead of shaming people, it's more effective to look at the institutional structures that drive the racist behavior. It's a more effective way to address the problem.

Which is why there's such frantic efforts by racists to derail the idea.

And this is something that is caused by sin, and only with its demise will we see and end. Thus we need Christ to bring cleanse us from sin and destroy the wicked.

 

[Barbarian]

And this is something that is caused by sin, and only with its demise will we see and end. Thus we need Christ to bring cleanse us from sin and destroy the wicked.

True. My dad was from a place that was deeply steeped in racism. He never got over it. He'd say things in casual conversation that would get me kicked off here if I quoted him. But he couldn't live down to it. He was just too good a man, prejudiced as he might be. Many of his employees and co-workers were people of color and he was kind and fair to them to the point that when I was working track gangs in the summer, they had nothing but good things to say about him.