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John McWhorter & Ian Buruma – The Spirit of Wokeness

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The Parallels Between Confucianism and Christianity

I would agree with you partly because most ideologies seek their justification in having a set of ideas, a set of arguments that make logical sense. Whereas a religion is a question of faith and so whether immaculate conception can be logically or scientifically explained in many ways is irrelevant. As to the question whether it's specific to Protestantism, I think probably not. But this human impulse is much more goes way beyond the Protestant world. Well, let me just express my... I'm one of these people who never did, like John's, evocation of religion in the context of woke racism. I always thought it did a disservice to religion. I thought it didn't take religion seriously.

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