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> But I think an anthropologist would see a difference. At the heart of the experience of being a Mormon (and presumably other religions, though I'm most familiar with this one) is belief in a Prophet (capital P) and a collection of scripture. If you ask any Mormon who the Prophet is, they'll tell you, and they'll all give the same answer. So, who is the prophet of Woke, and what are the scriptures?

I don't think the heart of a religion is a belief in a Prophet. Hindiusm is a religion, no one will dispute that, but that Hindus don't have the concept of a Prophet (big 'P'). Same goes for many other commonly accepted religions.

The only thing that all religions have in common is "A core set of beliefs, agreed upon among their followers".

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> "A core set of beliefs, agreed upon among their followers".

What is the core set of beliefs agreed upon by Woke adherents?

> What is the core set of beliefs agreed upon by Woke adherents?

From the outside of the asylum, it looks like:

"Discrimination against $GROUP_THAT_IS_NOT_MALE_AND_NOT_WHITE is active and alive and is the most important fight we have".

Maybe there's others, but I'm not part of the religion so it's difficult for me to tell why the followers hold the beliefs they do, because I don't share their beliefs.

One of the interesting things about wokeism is that the core beliefs - the things that you must uphold and recognise as absolute truth in order to be recognised as one of the tribe - are not actually codified anywhere. Not only that, they keep changing (though at every step, you must have complete faith that the current beliefs are absolutely true and correct). There's not some kind of formal process to be inducted into the truths either - you have to learn them through being continuously immersed in the community of believers. Oh, and it's vitally important that you also believe that these truths are obvious to every decent person, and that the only reason someone would claim to have trouble understanding them is because they're evil.

This is an absolutely brilliant statement.

And when the truths change, you have to remember that we were never at war with Oceania?

That you were born with and possess privilege and that acknowledging that privelege is morally necessary. That's the original sin parallel.

You can just read McWhorter, he draws a lot of parallels between Woke as a religion and Christian religion. It is somewhat amusing as an allegory. He's actually a fairly level headed critic.

People seem to be fine with religion for the most part. If you want to root out dogmatic thinking, then shun religious thinking from both the Woke religion and the socially expected Christian religion.

Of course, if conservatives were more welcoming to atheism this wouldn't be an issue to begin with.

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