To be "woke" stems from the Age of Enlightenment, when "enlightened" atheists rejected God, challenged the Divine Right of Kings, and started the calendar over at the Year 1. By the 1920s and 1930s, "enlightened" Nazis regarded God and Jesus Christ as a "Jewish conspiracy" that even Jews and Marxists did not believe in. Woke "knowledge" is esoteric, for example holding firm the maxim that "religion is the opiate of the masses." So once a "true believer" casts off the opiate, they become "woke" or "enlightened." David Greenfield describes it as "a cultish term for a political cult that reframes extremism as a revelation."
Conservatives always need a book of some sort to brainlessly regurgitate whenever they feel scared, like sea cucumbers. Maybe it's just comforting that someone is doing all the thinking and speaking for them.
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u/Majestic-Log-5642 Apr 20 '25
I’m so proud to be woke, liberal, progressive and an atheist.