The Woke-Islam Alliance and the Threat to Secularism

Archbishop: “There's a secular belief system that is its own religion—it has infallible dogmas it’s forcing on the populace, it punishes dissenters, it has its rituals & its saints and martyrs—so it has these markings of a religion and it's allowing no space for other beliefs.”

— Independent Truths with Dr. Scott Atlas (@ScottAtlas_IT) September 4, 2023

The archbishop is on to something. I’ve been telling readers of my blog for years now that woke progressivism is a religion—an imperialistic religion at that. Strategically, to keep it from protecting itself behind the shield of freedom of conscience, let’s call it a quasi-religion, but let’s also capitalize it—like we capitalize National Socialism. Those who push it suspend the principle of disestablishment and use the doctrines of Woke to push out other religious faith—except Islam, which is its sister totalitarianism—and take control over the individual, selectively negating his fundamental rights to conscience, speech, assembly, association, etc. The Woke are a colonizing army that has marched across the West and captured its institutions. It’s inquisitions abound.

I know people are concerned about Christian nationalism. So am I. But I suspect there is a high degree of correlation between those who express this concern and those who advocate woke progressivism. However, the only people who can validly express fear of Christian nationalism—that is, moving from the ground of secularism—are those who also stand against Woke and Islam and every other form of illiberal religion, ideology, ritual, and practice. Who are the people who have that ground to stand on? Those would be the liberals.

Central to liberalism is secularism. Secularism is not non-religious. A man can be a Christian and be a secularist. I know several such men. Secularism means the disestablishment of religion. Secularism emancipates religion from state sanction. It’s up to individuals to emancipate themselves from religion. The ideology of the Christian Nationalist is antidisestablishmentarianism. Yeah, it’s a mouthful, but I learned it as a kid, back when people were talking about the problem in a rational way. It’s time to talk about the problem again. Frankly, the concern is not Christians frustrated with American secularism. The threat to our liberties and freedoms is the imperial religion of Islam—the sharia supremacist movement—and the quasi-religion of Woke. That these totalitarianisms have become allied amplifies the threat.