wokeness as Counter-Reformation

My old friend Jody Bottum thinks that the various Woke movements amount to a kind of post-Protestantism. I think this is wholly wrong. Wokeness is aspirationally Roman Catholic in its structure. It already has:



magisterial teaching that one must hold de fide in order to belong
the pronouncing of anathemas upon those who dissent from that magisterial teaching
a distributed Inquisition devoted to unearthing and prosecuting heresy
an ever-growing Index of Prohibited Books

Wokeness despises the fissiparousness of Protestantism and wants to replace it with Real, Substantial, and Visible Unity under its banner. It’s basically a secularized Counter-Reformation.

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Published on August 14, 2020 07:30
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