The Left Is Transforming into a Religion, Maybe a Bit Too Literally
2:29 PM, Mar 28, 2017 | By Mark Hemingway
One of the more prescient essays in recent years is Jody Bottum's "The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas," which I'm proud to say was published in THE WEEKLY STANDARD. The essay posits that religious ideas are transforming politics as we know it, only instead of the hand-wringing about the Moral Majority or the George W. Bush administration's supposed attempts to impose theocracy, it's the left that is, ahem, "culturally appropriating" religious ideas to suit their own attempts to seize power.
Take ethnicity, which has become a matter of original sin. Unlike the Judeo-Christian belief, however, this sin does not apply to all of humanity. "So profound is the sin, in fact, that not even its proponents escape. The more they are aware of white privilege, the more they see it everywhere, even in themselves," writes Bottum. He quotes an essay of University of Texas professor Robert Jensen, who wrote: "There is not space here to list all the ways in which white privilege plays out, but it is clear that I will carry this privilege with me until the day white supremacy is erased."
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