The best reason to think about social justice as a religion
Over the last few years, several prominent atheists have been reaching some surprising conclusions about the insurgent social justice movement in America. In a New York Times interview about his book, “Woke Racism,” University of Columbia professor John McWhorter argues, “An anthropologist would see no difference in type between Pentecostalism and this new form of antiracism.” Journalist Helen Lewis likewise penned a 2020 Atlantic essay entitled, “How Social Justice Became a New Religion.” In her accompanying BBC documentary, “The Church of So...