With the rise of dissident politics have come renewed assaults on Jesus from the right. The intersection of LARPy neopaganism and crude race worship has produced a small yet stridently single-minded contingent of screwballs bent on taking out their racial animus on the Church.
Wiser heads have pointed out that the marked tendency of Christ’s enemies to attack His flock from opposite ends of the same issue only bolsters the Church’s claims. Normal people who hear the Woke Cult decrying Hitler’s Pope while paranoid wignats denounce Christendom as a Jewish plot understandably find Christians’ account of themselves more reasonable.
Even the most obtuse dissident must admit that the Woke Cult’s ascent coincides with the West’s dechristianization. Their continued hatred of the Gospel reveals them as dupes of the same forces that back the Wokeists.
Since abandoning Christ led us straight to Clown World, re-embracing Christianity is the cure for the Woke plague. But the resurgent idolatry afflicting the Right – whether in the form of ancestor, tree, or state worship – keep many from making that conclusion.
After all, the Bible has strong words against smoking party drugs and hiring prostitutes.
Instead of submitting their appetites to the only faith with a proven track record against spiritual threats to the West, nuPagans hang their hopes on utopian fantasies of restoring America’s pre-1965 demographics while keeping post-1968 morals. But the idea that a godless white majority will prevail where a white Christian majority lost is just dumb.
Any serious student of history knows that Christianity is an essential pillar of Western civilization. But Satan loves tempting God’s people to sin and then accusing us of hypocrisy. No one would fall for the nuPagans’ grift if every Christian lived Christianity. That scandal has given many who are otherwise sympathetic to Christianity second thoughts.
Hang out on Christian Twitter, and you’ll soon encounter statements like “Child trannies have me convinced that demons are real, so there must be a God. But every Christian sect seems woke, cucked, or cringe. If only there was a based Church!”
Such laments betray the same shallow, consumerist attitude that underlies nuPagan attacks on the Church.
Liberal democracy promised everyone unrestricted license. So personal preference became the sole standard used to judge everything, including religion.
You see it in the phrase “marketplace of ideas.” Liberalism frames politics as the same kind of consumer choice as shopping. Material preferences are enshrined as absolutes, so everything is politicized and commodified.
That is the tainted ground from which the Woke Cult grew. Genuine dissent can’t take root there.
The only fruitful way to approach religion is with intellectual honesty. If one is serious about seeking truth, he must acknowledge that truth isn’t up for grabs. Truth binds the conscience, and betraying that truth is intellectual treason.
That’s the real hypocrisy.
Even pagan LARPers heckle the Woke Cult over the same intellectual sloth, and rightly so.
This defining Western standard of morality is informed by Christianity, whether anyone likes it or not. Politics is downstream from culture, and religion is culture concretized. That is why anyone who presumes to pass judgment on the Church from a political standpoint commits the same offense he denounces.
Where both nuPagans and rad trads go wrong is in treating religion as a tool to achieve political ends. That inverted view is why the former can swallow nonsense about St. Paul starting the Church to undermine Rome, and the latter think a faux pas from the Pope disqualifies the Church.
Christianity is a revealed religion. And it’s not like she tries to keep that revelation secret.
If you’re convinced that Christianity’s essential doctrines are true, you are intellectually and morally bound to become Christian.
1 + 1 = 2 regardless of your math teacher’s cringe political takes or annoying personality.
Nor would your classmates’ personal lives keep you from joining the only class that taught skills vital to your success in life. The Church’s teachings are even more indispensable. Because not only do they teach us how to live life, they alone enable us to attain eternal life.
One of those teachings happens to be, “Take the beam out of your own eye first.” If you think you’re enlightened enough to condemn a two-millennia-long religious tradition based on the current leadership’s politics, you should join so you can go to confession.
From a based church, Lord deliver us!
“Happy, hopeful, and practical”
