Mainstream takes on Christianity are not at all friendly. Attempt to spread the gospel or even speak about Christianity in any way and, at some point, someone will find you and begin mocking it in some way.
Online, there are people who seemingly dedicate their time to finding people speaking well of Jesus or God so they can attempt to troll them in some way. Their attacks are pretty predictable at this point. They might attempt to bring up the Catholic Church’s history with certain pastors being caught as pedophiles. They might attempt to point out how God isn’t good because bad things happen, or he took an action that seems overtly cruel in the Bible.
A lot of them will just mock you for believing in a “sky daddy” or try to say something so overtly gross that it shocks you.
This kind of response to Christianity springs from a culture that has overtly rejected Christ and has embraced Earthly gods. As of this moment, the most powerful of these faux deities is none other than social justice. It’s the religion of choice for leftists, activists, media personalities, and Democrat politicians. It’s incredibly well-funded and it’s evangelists aren’t just true believers, they’re ready to do violence on behalf of their god.
As Bounding Into Comics reported, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles called the social justice movement and woke culture “pseudo-religions and even replacements and rivals to traditional Christian beliefs.”
Bounding covered how Gomez noted that the nature of political correctness is often geared toward correcting behaviors that are often Christian:
Later on, the Archbishop discusses cancel culture and political correctness saying, “In your program for this Congress, you allude to ‘cancel culture’ and ‘political correctness.’ And we recognize that often what is being canceled and corrected are perspectives rooted in Christian beliefs — about human life and the human person, about marriage, the family, and more.”
He elaborates, “In your society and mine, the ‘space’ that the Church and believing Christians are permitted to occupy is shrinking. Church institutions and Christian-owned businesses are increasingly challenged and harassed. The same is true for Christians working in education, health care, government, and other sectors. Holding certain Christian beliefs is said to be a threat to the freedoms, and even to the safety, of other groups in our societies.”
Gomez would go on to state that we should begin looking at the social justice movement as more of a “pseudo-religion” meant to replace and rival Christian beliefs:
“With the breakdown of the Judeo-Christian worldview and the rise of secularism, political belief systems based on social justice or personal identity have come to fill the space that Christian belief and practice once occupied,” he elaborates.
He continues to explain, “Whatever we call these movements — ‘social justice,’ ‘wokeness,’ ‘identity politics,’ ‘intersectionality,’ ‘successor ideology’ — they claim to offer what religion provides.”
“They provide people with an explanation for events and conditions in the world. They offer a sense of meaning, a purpose for living, and the feeling of belonging to a community. Even more than that, like Christianity, these new movements tell their own ‘story of salvation,’” he says.
Gomez isn’t wrong. Social justice comes complete with its own martyrs like George Floyd. It preys on the scared, weak-minded, and confused by offering them identity and direction. However, unlike Christianity, it offers nothing stable or even individualistic. It is, without doubt, a promotor of great evil and hatred toward their fellow man. It encourages the destruction of “others” in society and labels those without belief in its own systems as heretics that need to be eliminated from the general public.
It is a pseudo-religion, and it is very pervasive and powerful.
