Of course, it should be no surprise that such an ethic has emerged in a society on the heels of an early 2000s militant atheism, when people brazenly shrugged off religion as the language of the idiotic.
This is an interesting historical observation. I've never connected Richard Dawkins and friends with wokeism, but it makes perfect sense now. We had to demolish the old system before we could replace it with a new one.
I think it’s not the only thing, but it was the “clearing of the way” that set the groundwork for all of these other extremely corrosive ideologies to fill the vacuum/void
I highly doubt that was their intention. The way I see it (as a former avid follower of the four horsemen), Pope Benedict was waaaay ahead and noticed his parishioners were basically pagans with inertia. That was back in the late 1950s. Dawkins et al just gave everyone permission to admit what was functionally true. They were actually atheists who hadn’t realised yet. The rest of the artifice crumbled with that collective realisation.
Dawkins has come full circle again realising that his Anglican schoolboy version of Christianity was the straw man he handily demolished. Real Christianity is a part of the West and as it fades, so do we and so does his beloved scientific achievement with it.
Of course, it should be no surprise that such an ethic has emerged in a society on the heels of an early 2000s militant atheism, when people brazenly shrugged off religion as the language of the idiotic.
This is an interesting historical observation. I've never connected Richard Dawkins and friends with wokeism, but it makes perfect sense now. We had to demolish the old system before we could replace it with a new one.
I think it’s not the only thing, but it was the “clearing of the way” that set the groundwork for all of these other extremely corrosive ideologies to fill the vacuum/void
I highly doubt that was their intention. The way I see it (as a former avid follower of the four horsemen), Pope Benedict was waaaay ahead and noticed his parishioners were basically pagans with inertia. That was back in the late 1950s. Dawkins et al just gave everyone permission to admit what was functionally true. They were actually atheists who hadn’t realised yet. The rest of the artifice crumbled with that collective realisation.
Dawkins has come full circle again realising that his Anglican schoolboy version of Christianity was the straw man he handily demolished. Real Christianity is a part of the West and as it fades, so do we and so does his beloved scientific achievement with it.