Elizabeth Bruenig on Religion, Liberalism, and Wokeness
The Good Fight
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Is There a Difference Between Religious and Non-Religious?
Religion as a concept is this epi phenomenon of liberalism, or an epi phenomenon. There were these things that were causing too many problems to be included fully and full bloodedly in politics. And so in the case of metaphysical liberalism, a la rousseau, the ideas just a fully transform religion into something that can co operate with liberal democracy. If you want to tell me that wokeness is a religion in that respect, i have a much harder time imagining why. It just seems to be that the argument in that case is wawokeness is an ideology that functioning somewhat beyond public reason. The arguments are not being adequately fielded for the right reasons.
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