AndreusMaximus
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I guess that depends what you mean. I certainly agree with the second sentence. As for the first, I should clarify that I'm not saying it had to be wokeness, but I still do believe that there was a void that had to be filled. That void didn't create wokeness, but wokeness certainly took advantage of it.I don’t think wokeness came in to schools because something had to fill a void left by the absence of religion. It came in as a progressive strategy to indoctrinate children to be activists for an eventual revolution.
You'd be shocked how many churches get along nowadays with hardly any religion to speak of. Most of the churches where wokeness has successfully infiltrated are the ones where, in the cultural revolution of the 60's and 70's, they ditched any meaningful religious aspects in favor of "Let's all get together and sing songs and feel good about ourselves." I don't think you'll find many, if any, churches that have stuck to their traditional religious beliefs while simultaneously promoting leftist ideology.And frankly, it wouldn’t have mattered if there were religion in the schools anyway. Wokeness is doing a fine job of infiltrating churches. It would have just used whatever religious framework there was to their advantage.
Yes, wokeness could have very easily taken over an education system that maintained only the external trappings of religion, but what I see as more important is the fundamental understanding that underlies traditional Christianity: that we were all created by a higher power, and therefore we should respect the rights of others, and we don't decide for ourselves what is right and wrong, etc.
It is true that this fundamental understanding was already starting to be eroded away in the culture at large before it was pushed out of schools, so I suppose it might be unrealistic to think that it could have been kept going in schools while the culture at large was already leaving it behind. However, I do think the battle was made easier for the other side when Christianity was pushed out of the way. Like it or not, many, if not most, conservatives are heavily influenced by their religious beliefs, and those beliefs form a foundation upon which their conservative principles are built. So when these Christian conservatives decided that they were okay with seeing the fundamental ideas that formed the foundation of their principles being erased from public education, it created a lop-sided battlefield for leftists, who were perfectly willing to push their own ideologies into schools.