This was no accident. Those who have studied the genesis of this annexation know that it was a deliberate “long march through the institutions.” That campaign was conceived in the late 1960s by the violent German activist Rudi Dutschke, a disciple of the non-violent but much more dangerous Frankfurt School academic Herbert Marcuse, who approved of Dutschke’s plan.
Today, this strategy manifests in the demand that institutions be “woke.” The term, borrowed from African-American slang for being awake, has come to mean not just any type of liberalism, but one denoted by an obsequious obsession with social issues, denunciations of “whiteness,” the insistence that the freest and most prosperous society today is hopelessly racist and in need of deep change, and the intolerant resolve to censor any deviation from any of these concepts through cancel culture. Other American institutions are teetering on the verge of a woke takeover.
The Churches—as in the institutionalized Abrahamic faiths—have long
been bastions of conservatism by their very nature, but they are now in
danger of seeing their commitment to true justice and the care for the
poor and the stranger hijacked in the name of Social Justice,
a concept that undermines religion. Social Justice abandons forgiveness
and concentrates on punishment—especially, but not only, through forced
redistribution of resources according to membership in categories of
the supposedly oppressed and marginalized. Forgetting past sins, which
the Bible repeatedly tells us is what God routinely does, is verboten.........To Read More....
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