After sounding alarms that the Woke Cult is a parallel religion hostile to Christianity for years, it’s encouraging to see members of the Church’s hierarchy catching on.
The leading Catholic bishop in the United States admonished the growing interest in intersectionality and identity politics, saying they are “pseudo-religions.”
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said “America’s new political religions” of “wokeness,” “intersectionality,” and “identity politics ,” among others, “claim to offer what religion provides.” He delivered the remarks via video on Thursday to the Congress of Catholics and Public Life as it met in Madrid that day.
If I may differ slightly from His Excellency, the Progressive Death Cult is not a pseudo-religion. It’s a full-blown, heretical faith with its own public liturgies and sacraments.
“I believe the best way for the Church to understand the new social justice movements is to understand them as pseudo-religions, and even replacements and rivals to traditional Christian beliefs,” Gomez said . “With the breakdown of the Judeo-Christian worldview and the rise of secularism, political belief systems based on social justice or personal identity have come to fill the space that Christian belief and practice once occupied.”
Though we could pick nits about the Christian worldview having numerous and significant differences from Judaism, on the whole Gomez gets it to a degree that’s refreshing for a prelate.
“Today’s critical theories and ideologies are profoundly atheistic. They deny the soul, the spiritual, transcendent dimension of human nature; or they think that it is irrelevant to human happiness. They reduce what it means to be human to essentially physical qualities — the color of our skin, our sex, our notions of gender, our ethnic background, or our position in society. … In denying God, these new movements have lost the truth about the human person. This explains their extremism and their harsh, uncompromising, and unforgiving approach to politics,” he continued, urging the church “to understand and engage these new movements — not on social or political terms, but as dangerous substitutes for true religion.”
Realizing you’re being made war upon is the first step to mounting an effective counteroffensive. Gomez’s recognition that wokeism is not a political ideology, but a depraved, materialist religion, is a good first step.
The USCCB’s best next step would be renewing the American Church’s commitment to enforcing Canon 915. Will they inform Death Cult figureheads like Puppet Pal Joe of their self-excommunications? Don’t hold your breath. At the same time, take care to place periods of weak Church leadership in proper context as invitations to increase your trust in and reliance on Christ.
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The Code of Canon Law forbids grave sinners from also celebrating the Mass. Absent the compunction to say an act of contrition beforehand at the sacrament of confession, can they still attend the Mass if they keep silent?
Attrition suffices for the absolution of mortal sin in the sacrament of penance.
This is why it pays to be an apostolic Christian. Life without the sacraments is dreadful.
I’d be dead without them–at least spiritually.
Which is what counts in the final analysis.
Having some discussions here and there about the current trajectory of the nation. One common theme is “the Virginia race shows that the balance of power is shifting back to the right. There’s no need to worry about shifts back and forth, because those always happen.” I’ve tried to point out that every time the pendulum swings back to “our side” the situation is always worse than it was the last time, and that the left is doing everything it can to make sure that the pendulum never swings again (or at least, that if it does swing back it will only swing back to a Washington General who will dutifully do nothing with his time in power.) But it’s no use; the belief that “power naturally goes back and forth so there’s nothing to worry about in the long run” is too strong. It’s like a cult tenet that is held true regardless of what is actually happening.
Is this a generational thing (most people I am discussing this with are boomers)? Is it a result of people getting grifted? Is it some reflection of the pop cult (with politics consumed in much the same way that mass entertainment is)?
One thing the old nu-atheists got right was the definition of a delusion as a fixed, firm belief not subject to contrary evidence. Their error was in not seeing that the same definition applied to them.
Most people still labor under the delusions that America is a proposition, the dirt is magic, and the enemy can be won over with the right combination of words.
The ranks of the deluded are shrinking, though. Seeing House republicans repay their rank and file voters for VA by helping democrats pass the infrastructure bill shook a fair number of BoomerCons. The outcome of the Rittenhouse trial will most likely disillusion legions more.
“I’ve tried to point out that every time the pendulum swings back to “our side” the situation is always worse than it was the last time”
As Curtis Yarvin put it, “Cthulhu always swims left.” ZippyCatholic (who, unlike Al Gore, actually did invent the Internet, or at least a major chunk of it) called it The Hegelian Mambo