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How to be divinely secular (or at least support secular divinity)Church of the Left Several people have been warning us for some time now that the "successor ideology", or "critical social justice" or "wokeness" or whatever you want to call it is actually a new religion. Much of the nuttiness we see in our society at this time is attributed to the religious nature of this movement. James Lindsay has been calling adherents "gnostics". Lindsay has also been warning about the Marxist nature of current pedagogy in our K-12 schools and universities, and warning that conservatives must go beyond being conservative and become anti-communist. (Of course, Marxism itself has its own parallels to Christianity). This has alienated many of his former conservative allies, who thought he was a religious conservative, or could be persuaded to become a religious conservative. He is a classical liberal atheist. But I think he has a lot of good advice for conservatives. John McWhorter, "a black liberal of about 1960" has written a whole book about a new religion of anti-racism that hurts black people in the name of helping them. He is resigned to the idea that adherents to this religion cannot be reached through reason (at least most of them), so efforts to keep them from having power over people should be taken. His book includes some negative descriptions of established religions, which has alienated many religious people. Though the book is over target about the "woke" movement. In February, Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse wrote a Public Substack piece entitled: Normies Of The World, Unite! Toward a liberal-conservative alliance against Wokeism: -- Friedrich Nietzsche People who worked in hospital clinics in the United States and Great Britain are blowing the whistle on the rush to prescribe puberty-blocking drugs and surgeries to children suffering from gender dysphoria. . . In the U.S. and UK, well-funded and politically powerful groups of activists demonized those who questioned the underlying science of their claims or expressed doubt that drugs and surgeries were the best things for girls. The top trans attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) falsely claimed on Twitter that Shrier was "closely aligned with white supremacists in power" and encouraged banning her book. In a podcast with Joe Rogan, Shellenberger said that it was a year after he had asked Abigail Shrier about a possible religious significance of trans in the current hysteria before she got back to him with an answer. How gender ideology compared to religion wasn't as obvious as with, say, climate change. Back to the Public piece: The separate Woke dogmas have come together to offer the unity provided by traditional religions. Where climate change offers the apocalypse and Black Lives Matter offers absolution from the Original Sin of white supremacy, "being trans" gives one a soul. The three issues form the trinity of Wokeism. As a single religion, Wokeism manipulates powerful emotions, including fear, guilt, and anger. How, in the end, did things get so bad? A big part of the reason is that Wokeism is a dogmatic, powerful, and bullying religion. But another part of the reason is that the Woke are united and the anti-Woke divided. Suggestions follow. James Lindsay would also argue that the normies don't have a plan to fight back effectively against the neo-communists, who present as hysterical women, generally making the other side seem cruel or stupid. And they always escalate. Think Tennessee. One rare exception is the Bud Light partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, where some real damage seems to have been done. (h/t Anonosaurus Wrecks) People seem to have mostly followed Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, including #13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Abigail Shrier takes aim again Would Dylan Mulvaney ever use these shoes as part of one of his cosplays? He's been pretending to be a young girl from time to time recently. Abigail Shrier, back in January, took aim: If you wanted to protect traffickers and predators, you'd pass a bunch of legislation that looks exactly like California's. She wrote up her investigation into the consequences of these new "LGBTQ-rights" laws in a Substack piece. She warns us upfront that it is a long read. Maybe you can save it for when you have some time. She does great work. Some of the details in this piece are insane. On the grounds of making California more welcoming to LGBTQ youth, State Senator Scott Wiener is transforming the state into a haven for human trafficking. Like I said, she is taking specific aim. On a Saturday night in South Los Angeles, cars pull up and idle along the side streets of Figueroa, high beams ablaze, so that the drivers can get a good look at "the girls." The women stand three astride in the middle of the street, in pasties and G-string bikinis under fishnet dresses. Draped over their shoulders are unzipped coats; even in temperate L.A., the night's January chill is biting. In seven-inch Lucite heels, they teeter toward the driver of each car the way you might walk barefoot across gravel. Less than a block away, their pimps keep company on a sidewalk corner, in hoodies and loose jeans, watching their quarry, awaiting the payout. Absent is the one thing that might typically break up the party: a police car. While the last few decades have seen an increase in human trafficking, women at all three of the anti-trafficking groups I spoke with across California agreed: nothing compares with the stunning rise in trafficking they've witnessed in recent months. . . Why would anyone propose such a law? Why would the California State Legislature pass it? I asked the bill's author, San Francisco-based state senator Scott Wiener. The answer he gave is the one that he supplies for so many of the bills he authors: it was necessary to advance the rights of LGBTQ people. "If you are standing on the sidewalk with high heels, and you wear your hair a certain way, and you wear tight clothing, an officer can say, 'I think you're loitering with the intent to commit prostitution' and arrest you," Wiener said. "That is not how we should be doing things in the United States of America -- arresting people for how they look," he continued. "And when you do that, not surprisingly, it's only certain kinds of people who actually get arrested: it's trans women. It's black women. . . . It's an inherently profiling law," he said. "Randomly arresting a bunch of black trans women for how they look is not protecting potential victims of human trafficking." Hmmmm. I thought that the planned "Day (or days) of Transgender Vengeance" - the end of the week after the school shooting by a transgender - was supposed to have been inspired partly by the murders of black trans sex workers! Not by arrests for loitering. Returning to Shrier's piece: But were the police indeed "randomly arresting a bunch of black trans women"? The anti-trafficking advocates I spoke with dispute this. For starters, Wilson, Powell, and Russell (all of whom are African-American) say that biological women and girls -- not transgender individuals--constitute the vast majority of those trafficked. Nearly every report on human trafficking by global human rights organizations confirms this observation. In order to "protect" people like Martha P. Johnson (top of the post) from loitering charges, California officials abandon children and women to sex slavery. Divine Trans
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Secular Spirituality in K-12 Schools Well-researched piece by Lisa Logan. Leftists Violate Separation Of Church And State With 'Spiritual' SEL In Public Schools Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a mental-health framework that has woven itself into the very fabric of our education system. As if this departure from its original purpose were not destructive enough, social-emotional learning is undergoing another revision -- one that will seek to address the spiritual needs of students as a part of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model. There's still room to fight back right now.
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