"In some cases, smaller minority groups can receive disproportionate levels of explicit (holiday) recognition. Modern American leftism, and especially its “woke” manifestation, has gone well beyond this."
My response to this is: Not true/nonsense
1) New Year's, Thanksgiving, Christmas and, arguably, Columbus days are ALL Christian majoritarian. Columbus day was established via 1) Columbus "discovering" the New World and bringing Christianity to the New World and later partly in response to the 1891 lynching of 11 Italian Americans in New Orleans
2) MLK celebrates ending of segregation, (Unofficial: Juneteenth end of Slavery)
3) No holiday for Chanukah, no holiday for Id al-Fitr
4) who cares and why?
To the extent "Woke" has any significant role, it's a spoon in the swimming pool, as the above list should make clear.
As for the number of blacks from "privileged foreign backgrounds": Pew Research Center: A 2022 study showed that 21%. So, do you suggest foreign blacks should become a special class and how would such legislation look like? Do you have a pragmatic solution rather than ideological?
I was in NYC for a month this past summer, myself and a fellow Christian colleague started to play a game called “find the non Catholic Church without gay stuff on it”, pride flags everywhere, even one church on the UES with a Harvey Milk quote, who I’m pretty sure is a confirmed pederast.
We eventually found one, First Chinese Baptist Church in old Chinatown. We have been surrendering symbolic space for decades and I’m pretty sure it’s bought us nothing.
I mean, we’ve had the alternative state religion forced into our public square, their holy symbols (rainbow flags), holy castes (different levels of non-white, for their purposes any conservative Christian non Caucasian gets demoted to “white”), holy days (earth day, etc.), creeds (diversity is our strength), and their favorite, punishment of non believers.
While I’m suspicious of any attempt to replace the religion of faith with mere outward observance, I’m finding it so hard to care about Hegseths Bible study, Aaron. The other side shows zero compunction about putting our faces in the dirt whenever possible, public symbols of Christianity make you blanche a little?
“ White [sic] a majority of the population still identifies as Christian”, looks like a Freudian slip. I’m sorry I respect you but I mean come on, we didn’t get this way by accident and if you think the enemies of Christians and conservatives are just itching to make peace with us so long as we don’t try to achieve public symbolic dominance? I mean is that what you’re saying?
I'd say look for substantive changes to make. Why haven't all red states started taxing remittances, for example? That would be more productive than symbolic legislation.
I’m pretty sure states can’t legally tax remittances that leave the country, for one, although I do like where your head is at. It’s also not a choice. Personally I think more evangelism and for want of a better word, catechesis (better at doctrine and double that for much neglected practical theology (temptation, prudence, etc.)) weigh more than every monument built by man, but hey I like monuments too and would like to see more.
I agree with this. I think the current zeitgeist is metamodernism, and it's important we don't play the narrative game or we'll be watered-down and swept up. We really ought to keep with the timelessness of Christianity. What we need is a full replacement of science, arts and everything. We only think outside our system through cracks in the system, and it's incumbent upon us to adhere to Christ.
"In some cases, smaller minority groups can receive disproportionate levels of explicit (holiday) recognition. Modern American leftism, and especially its “woke” manifestation, has gone well beyond this."
My response to this is: Not true/nonsense
1) New Year's, Thanksgiving, Christmas and, arguably, Columbus days are ALL Christian majoritarian. Columbus day was established via 1) Columbus "discovering" the New World and bringing Christianity to the New World and later partly in response to the 1891 lynching of 11 Italian Americans in New Orleans
2) MLK celebrates ending of segregation, (Unofficial: Juneteenth end of Slavery)
3) No holiday for Chanukah, no holiday for Id al-Fitr
4) who cares and why?
To the extent "Woke" has any significant role, it's a spoon in the swimming pool, as the above list should make clear.
As for the number of blacks from "privileged foreign backgrounds": Pew Research Center: A 2022 study showed that 21%. So, do you suggest foreign blacks should become a special class and how would such legislation look like? Do you have a pragmatic solution rather than ideological?
I was in NYC for a month this past summer, myself and a fellow Christian colleague started to play a game called “find the non Catholic Church without gay stuff on it”, pride flags everywhere, even one church on the UES with a Harvey Milk quote, who I’m pretty sure is a confirmed pederast.
We eventually found one, First Chinese Baptist Church in old Chinatown. We have been surrendering symbolic space for decades and I’m pretty sure it’s bought us nothing.
I mean, we’ve had the alternative state religion forced into our public square, their holy symbols (rainbow flags), holy castes (different levels of non-white, for their purposes any conservative Christian non Caucasian gets demoted to “white”), holy days (earth day, etc.), creeds (diversity is our strength), and their favorite, punishment of non believers.
While I’m suspicious of any attempt to replace the religion of faith with mere outward observance, I’m finding it so hard to care about Hegseths Bible study, Aaron. The other side shows zero compunction about putting our faces in the dirt whenever possible, public symbols of Christianity make you blanche a little?
“ White [sic] a majority of the population still identifies as Christian”, looks like a Freudian slip. I’m sorry I respect you but I mean come on, we didn’t get this way by accident and if you think the enemies of Christians and conservatives are just itching to make peace with us so long as we don’t try to achieve public symbolic dominance? I mean is that what you’re saying?
I'd say look for substantive changes to make. Why haven't all red states started taxing remittances, for example? That would be more productive than symbolic legislation.
I’m pretty sure states can’t legally tax remittances that leave the country, for one, although I do like where your head is at. It’s also not a choice. Personally I think more evangelism and for want of a better word, catechesis (better at doctrine and double that for much neglected practical theology (temptation, prudence, etc.)) weigh more than every monument built by man, but hey I like monuments too and would like to see more.
Oklahoma taxes remittances so it can be done.
I agree with this. I think the current zeitgeist is metamodernism, and it's important we don't play the narrative game or we'll be watered-down and swept up. We really ought to keep with the timelessness of Christianity. What we need is a full replacement of science, arts and everything. We only think outside our system through cracks in the system, and it's incumbent upon us to adhere to Christ.
"We really ought to keep with the timelessness of Christianity. What we need is a full replacement of science, arts and everything."
You had that for about 1,700 years and now we're only in the decline (but not disappearance) of it for maybe the last 500.
So, let's think about it. We went for about 30 years avg life expectancy to a global average of 70 and in the West to 80.
Sucks, right?