Thursday, June 11, 2020

Column: Politics as religion after George Floyd. This isn’t an Orwellian novel. This is your country. - Chicago Tribune

Physicians and team members gather in front of Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and kneel for eight minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd on June 5, 2020.Column: Politics as religion after George Floyd. This isn’t an Orwellian novel. This is your country. - Chicago Tribune
"What are you really seeing as Americans kneel, hands raised in secular prayer, repeating political creeds on the TV news?
And that secular foot-washing?
You’re witness to neo-Marxist appropriation of Christian symbolism, in the aftermath of the horrifying Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
And now, the priests of the secularist left separate the biblical sheep from the goats on the basis of skin color.
...But in the current political universe, whites must atone for the sins of white racism even if they’re not racists, even if their families arrived here only yesterday.
And even the mere suggestion this might be unfair, the slightest hint of resistance, can trigger accusations that could ruin careers, deny entrance to the professions, and drive nuance from the public square.
And it is all by design...
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