Thread by @feelsdesperate

I think an important reason libs are so hostile to Christianity is that so much of social justice theology is borrowed from Christianity.

Christianity has to be actively moved out of the way so that there is an empty space for social justice theology.

https://twitter.com/paul_heron_/status/1840013470953009174

Over the past few years people have said things to me like, ‘You don’t believe transgender people exist,’ or, ‘You don’t believe in anti-racism,’ and I didn’t understand what they really meant.

On a deeper level they weren’t making an empirical claim or arguing for conceptual…

…coherence. Rather, they were making a theological assertion.

Not having an observant upbringing myself, I didn’t immediately recognize that intent because it wasn’t stated explicitly.

Libs scoff at the miracles and supernatural occurrences in religious texts and so instead,…

…to get to where they need to be, they depend on the teleology of History or ideological revelation that strips away ‘false consciousness’ or the personal transformation that occurs with *praxis.*

Libs need many of the things religion provides though…

…and so they become deeply attached to the social science and activism that allows them to ‘find their way back.’

Many assertions that are empirically falsifiable or mere politics become sacrosanct and deeply lodged and cannot be falsified.

On these terms it is possible to…

…have some sympathy for libs. Their self regard leads them to be alienated from the things that best satisfy deep and fundamental needs and the category errors they force themselves into often derange them.

There can be no helping the libs though- if you bring these issues up…

…even in the most polite and sympathetic terms they react with anger and hostility because it undercuts their sensitive and undeserved sense of superiority.