Our Savior, Jesus

 

Many good people today call for a return to religion, or to traditional religious culture, in order to defeat the rising philosophy of Wokism or new-style leftist progressivism. Even some Objectivists, libertarians, and classical liberals call for it. This is because they see right-wing religiosity and left-wing Wokism as the only two viable philosophical alternatives today. They observe that by far the best current supporters of social, economic, and political freedom are the religious. Hence some relatively intelligent, educated, and virtuous people look to them for partial salvation, or at least for an emergency stop-gap.

But Western Civilization first became great in the Greco-Roman era before religion was powerful, maybe around 450 B.C. to 100 A.D. Then the evil godly got to work, eventually crushing reasonism and liberalism. A thousand-year Dark Age ensued.

The West only became great again after religion was massively driven back down. The corrupting, debilitating, culturally-devastating belief in "god" had to be hammered during the Renaissance and Enlightenment before the magnificent world of liberalism could rise to a new height. So it's more logical to think a new and improved version of rationality, individualism, and liberty needs to destroy both the collectivist left and the religious right.

A new ascendency of religious conservatism also seems far too weak intellectually to defeat the hideous Woke philosophy. And even if it could, this would not be a good thing. The victory of such an alien and wicked philosophy in our Greco-Roman world would likely only temporarily improve Western society, and only by a small amount. And over time the religious right, if allowed to dominate, would likely plunge us all into another irrational, illiberal Dark Age.