Social Justice Becomes 'New Religion', Politics Makes 'Like We're Already in Hell': Atlantic Article

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Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis said in a Thursday article that many contemporary Americans have replaced traditional religions of the past with political ideologies. increase. 

"Simple question: If someone in the street is shouting 'repent' at you, is it likely that he (a) is a preacher of a religion? , or (b) more likely to be a left-wing activist?" Lewis asked to begin the work. 

She recalled the example of outraged advocates of social justice, saying, "Religious concepts such as repentance, hellfire, "You might expect it to be less noticeable," he said. She, and she ``but not,'' she warned.

She explained: “For some activists, politics has usurped the role that religion played as a source of meaning and purpose in our lives and as a way of finding community.”

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They are the group most likely to be involved in the bombing incident." 42}, especially the type found on college campuses. As she summarizes, "they replaced one religion with another."

Lewis argues that there is much between religion and the orthodoxy of social justice that binds people across society. pointed out that there are similarities between

``Many popular social justice phrases have catechism echoes. “It shows and reassures the group that everyone present shares the same values,” she observed. becoming more tribal (because disagreement becomes a matter of right and wrong), more prone to moralization and piety.”

Lewis argued that as American politics and norms changed, observed that the tribal lines by which people divided themselves also changed, and noted that "in a country where racial and religious marriages have become commonplace, dating across political lines is A new taboo: Young British author Tomiwa Owolaid told me he often saw dating profiles claiming he was 'not a conservative'." 

Youth church attendance is declining in many parts of the Western world.  (iStock)

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She cited linguist and Atlantic contributor John McWhorteras a college student. “He sees other similarities, suggesting that concepts such as white privilege and male privilege are versions of the original sin that humans are born with, regardless of individual circumstances. Problematic,, he argues, hereticis a new term for

Lewis argues that traditional religious groups have had internal strife. He quoted a statement from Laura Janner Klausner, a Rabbi who ensures that communities are united even in the face of grief. "When they have just given birth, you still have to take them something; We still have to go to their mourning prayers.”

Lewis warns readers that as America trades past religion for political tribalism, it risks taking a darker path as a nation.

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Lives, churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples force into their congregations random combinations of people who happen to live near them. It's mediated over the internet," she warned. “We have taken a religion with its innate potential for sectarian conflict and fed it through a polarization machine. No wonder politics today feels like a wasteland of anguished verbal abuse. No, and we already feel like we're in hell."