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Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. Yet individuals are not divine on their own; they only participate in the divinity found in shared group identities. Certain segments of wokeness also exhibit pantheistic traits in that they view the natural world as divine. For other segments of the woke community, human beings must adjust nature to render internal identities external. Gender re-assignment surgeries and hormone replacement or suppression regimens for transgender persons are among the most conspicuous examples.

Wokeness is grounded in a Gnostic understanding of the world, which distinguishes between appearances accessible to everyone and the reality perceptible only to a certain few. I had no appetite for politics, and also didn't think I mattered much. So many voices always seemed louder, richer, or more powerful than mine.

It was only as I got older and started working on myself spiritually that I began to really understand not only that my voice mattered but that I needed to make sure I was using it as an act of love and service When you become more sensitive to the people around you in this way, you can't help but become more sensitive to the conditions in which the people around you, near and far, are living.

I began to not just understand but really feel that I didn't want to merely live on the planet, I wanted to be in the world and, as a woman of color in this day and age, there was just no way I could really be in our world and ignore politics. What Wade describes is a central rite of passage into the woke framework. The transition typically begins with a person living an ordinary existence of production and consumption.

Over time, the individual notices how this way of life is lonely and unfulfilling. Traditional authorities are hypocritical or incompetent. Nothing is as it appears. It is only when the individual discovers a small collection of like-minded believers who have pierced the veil to see past the illusions of the world that he "awakens. These like-minded groups of believers replace the un-woke families, neighborhoods, and religious communities in which the woke individual was raised.

Woke families of choice are grounded in the identities that woke individuals adopt. To share an identity with others after becoming woke is to subject one's personal identity to the rules governing that group, and in turn, to police those rules.

According to the woke creed of intersectionality, human beings are composed of not just one, but a multiplicity of identities, among which are race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, and sexual preference.

In his book American Awakening , Joshua Mitchell classifies these various identities using the terms "innocent" and "guilty" in an effort to compare wokeness to a kind of decomposed version of Protestant Christianity. He is the "transgressor," Mitchell explains. Yet wokeness involves a complicated system of ranks that do not break down easily into two, mutually exclusive categories.

It's more useful to think of woke identities in caste terms, wherein the highest-caste identities are "clean" and lower-caste identities are increasingly "unclean. A person bearing all of these identities is maximally unclean, since he is thought to have experienced no suffering and only privilege. Identity caste rankings are not always fixed. East Asians, for instance, have experienced a decrease in perceived cleanliness thanks to efforts to distinguish "people of color" generally from black and indigenous people, who are thought to have endured greater suffering than other racial minorities.

Similarly, Jewish people once harbored a separate, relatively clean identity given their historical status as an oppressed people, and yet they have increasingly been folded into the generally unclean identity of whiteness, or even rendered especially unclean thanks to Zionism. The key animating principle of wokeness is the collective struggle against the evil geist that inhabits the privileged, with the ultimate goal being the reversal of the advantages inherited by the privileged in favor of those who have suffered.

The cleaner identities, by virtue of their cleanliness, have the standing to determine how the struggle is to proceed. The privileged, meanwhile, must atone for their unclean status by struggling alongside the clean. All must struggle, but the privileged must struggle most of all. For this reason, Mitchell is not quite right when he says there is no possibility of forgiveness in wokeness; it's just not the kind of Christian forgiveness that he and others recognize.

Forgiveness for the woke comes from becoming a good ally. There is no absolution, however, as privilege is permanent. The privileged, therefore, are required to engage in constant, public acts of atonement. The firmer their attachment to their privilege, the less clean they are. These are the untouchables of the woke hierarchy. Due to their willful privilege, they are thought to deserve any hardships they suffer.

Since caste status is linked with identity, there is always incentive for people to assume cleaner identities, either to experience greater cleanliness or greater power.

At the center of this controversy is the extent to which identity is chosen or inherent. These are white women who presented as black because of their desire to enter the struggle with a quasi-adopted clean identity. One solution to this dilemma is to treat intersectional identities as divine but not transcendent.

Since sacredness for the woke is of this world, they lack any rationale for self-sacrifice; there is no eternal reward for those who ally themselves with the clean in their struggle against the unclean. Yet the present world affords a limited horizon for harmony, since the continuing struggle, even among the woke, prevents its present fullness. The afterlife for the woke is not one where the soul awaits the judgment of creation. Rather, like the pagan Romans, the woke find life after death through fama , or the renown due to a person who lived a glorious life.

Similarly, fate for the woke seems to lie in the continued caste struggle. Yet whatever successes the woke might achieve, they are never complete, and are always subject to reaction. This makes the outlook of the woke a rather bleak one. As theologian William Cavanaugh observes, the claim that there exist boundaries between religion and non-religion, and that these boundaries are "natural, eternal, fixed, and immutable," is a relatively new phenomenon that came about "with the rise of the modern state.

In the latter scenario, state actors profess indifference on matters of faith, provided the faithful make no effort to interfere with the use of state power. This is the stance the woke ostensibly push for in the public sphere, especially with regard to traditional religious faiths more on that later.

Yet as philosophy professor Francis Beckwith has argued, such an arrangement is arguably incoherent, as matters of faith place the faithful under obligations to act on their faith in the public realm.

To demand privatization of faith, therefore, is to ban it outside of the human heart. The second possibility Cavanaugh raises is equally dangerous. In this scenario, the state absorbs the church and uses its monopoly on violence to impose at least outward compliance with the religious tenets of that church. Christian privilege, much like white privilege, often goes unnoticed but takes up a lot of space. It rears its head in both small and large ways, in everything from the business sector to the passing of laws.

That would be because when most Americans say God, what they implicitly mean is the Christian God. Why were same sex couples not allowed to marry in all 50 of these United States until …. Because multiple senators, congresspeople, and general Americans argued that marriage should be between man and woman.

And their arguments were based on what, ladies and gentlemen? Even beyond these concrete things, there are small, almost imperceptible privileges that Christians are afforded that other faiths are not. No one will cast a second glance at my cross necklace, but should a Muslim woman wear hijab, she is likely to be subject to second glances, name calling and sometimes even assault —and yes, I mean here in these United States.

Why, do you ask? Because in a shocking plot twist, some of these religions and practices that Christians so love to discredit or ignore share a history with Christianity. For example, the Bible is not just composed of the New Testament, but also contains the Old Testament. Along with this comes the indisputable fact that Jesus was a Jew and often considered a heretical one at that.

Yet, when thinking about the construction of Christianity, many Christians will negate or attempt to skim over this fact.