I watch way too much TV. Not much of a confession since I don’t plan to change things. Lately, I’ve been really offended at the woke left pushing their religion on me. A comedy pushed their views on race and privilege on me. Several dramas with very honorable police officers as characters preached about their need in some sense to apologize for their dishonorable profession. I may not be describing this well, but I felt like I was being preached at. The writers’ religious beliefs have infiltrated television in a way that pulls you out of the story and you know you’re being preached at.
Television is one thing, but this is happening all over. People can be discriminated against based on their past sins on social media in hiring practices. People can be fired or shunned for not practicing the progressive religion correctly. Schools are adopting the religion in their standards and curriculum. Human resources departments are practicing the rites and sacraments of critical race theory, white privilege and white fragility. Banks are beginning to rate people on a social credit score based on woke criteria.
I’ve shared before about my concerns about calls from the left to re-educate or even remove people like us from society. I think it is a natural next step when the government establishes a state religion.
So how do we proceed with establishing a separation between the progressive church and state? If we can’t figure this out we may all be burned at the stake. Hyperbole? Maybe, but there are millions killed by the state in the reign of Marxist religion.
I wrote this yesterday and let it sit for a day. Something didn’t feel quite right. I’m upset that my entertainment has been tainted by the left. Wokeness seems to be everywhere and taking over everything. We need to be able to talk about moral issues, but we are being silenced. I think you can make a decent case that Marxism or Progressivism is very religious, but declaring it a religion that can be removed from political discussion is dangerous. How would that be used against us?
We’ve got to find a way to get past the censorship and make our case. I think truth is behind us. Our civil liberties are at risk and I think we will pay a high price before it is all over. It will be far worse if we cut corners now.
4 replies on “Separation of Progressive Church and State”
Who is “us”?
The government is not establishing a religion of leftism.
You practice your religion at home and in your church and you control the education of your children.
Great piece at American Greatness by Austin Ruse pertinent to your point:
“…secularity has had a confused meaning down through the ages. It began as a religious term meaning ‘to do with this world’ as opposed to the transcendent world of eternity. But it was always understood that even the ‘secular’ world fell under the aegis of God. By contrast, in recent decades, it has come to mean ‘without religion,’ ‘without God.’ So, when our government insists upon secularity defined this way, it is insisting upon a politics and a law without God, without religion—which means, quite obviously, the government’s choosing a side in the modern culture wars. Once again, we see the inherent contradiction between neutrality in matters of religion and the insistence upon secularity in purposes and effects. If the government is to be neutral, then how can it insist upon a secularity that, in modern parlance, means without God and religion?” [My emphasis added.]
https://amgreatness.com/2021/04/17/the-rise-of-the-new-state-church/
Okay, let’s insert religion into the government of The People and give religious doctrine authority over the making of law.
Can I assume you mean xtianity as opposed to islam, buddhism, hinduism, scientology? And which xtain sect, Catholic, Lutheran, Baptists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jonesism; how about those Latter Day Saints?
The point of the piece is that when it comes to matters of conscience, our government is lying when it claims it is acting impartially. In truth, it has chosen a single point of view and weighs the scales heavily in favor of its preference.