The only cure for wokeism is to turn to God

At The Federalist today, Victoria Marshall has a piece entitled In A Culture Full Of Sam Smiths, Christianity Is The Real Subversion. The topic was also covered by Monica Showalter at The American Thinker very well, but I will concentrate on Marshalls article today. If you want to see an embedded version of Smith's disgusting performance, go to Showalter's piece.

If you are like me, your parents were raised during the Great Depression, when the average person struggled to survive. Then they were thrust into World War II, all of which must have seemed like the End Times to them. A significant majority were one stripe of another of Christian. Though the Devil was seeping into every cultural institution, as detailed in the book by Paul Kengor and Mary Nicholas, entitled  The Devil and Bella Dodd, most people were unaware of it, being preoccupied with living their own lives.

Teens growing up in this era, doing what teens do and rebelling, often struck poses as atheists or agnostics. The music of the 1960s often shocked our parents, though today I find it shallow, a bit maudlin, and not very interesting. The problem with people who grew up during this time was that they never really grew up. We enjoyed the Pax Americana, which allowed us the luxury of looking to ourselves rather than depending on God. We saw ourselves as masters of the universe: who needs a God. An example is the conceit that we can control the climate and stop global warming. The facts however, which nobody wants to admit, is that we control nothing. The climate warms and it cools, and there is nothing we can do about it, thank God.

Today, many American's believe things that are untrue, and if they would crack the good Book, they would discover that people already knew these things thousands of years ago.  Like the fact that there are only two sexes, and one can not change sex by wishing it so, praise be to God.  Things like the fact that God created man in his own image, and therefore we should stop concentrating on superficial things like race and concentrate more on character. Amen.

So it is that Lucifer has seemingly taken over the whole of our culture. As Marshall writes:

Hollywood is in desperate need of new ideas. Take Sunday’s Grammy Awards, for example. If there were ever a spectacle that could simultaneously be described as demonic and trite, it would be Sam Smith’s performance of “Unholy,” which rang the final death knell for the satanic-ritual-as-art trope.

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Modern American culture has become a willing collaborator to the arts world — from Hollywood to the Oval Office, from TikTok to the public school classroom — thanks to the ascendancy of leftist orthodoxy in cultural and political institutions. Art can no longer be subversive once the political and broader media establishments espouse its values, whether those be sexual perversion or anti-religious bigotry.

Thus art has ceased to be interesting or subversive. Instead, the arts world and the establishment have merged — First Lady Jill Biden presented at the award show after all — producing mediocre content according to its tastes. If art wants to become subversive again, it must reject the values most prized by our modern culture. It must discard the idols of the left, from sexual deviancy to bitter racism. It must trash wokeness. Until it comes up with a fresh message, expect a continued mass exodus.

Reactionaries who really want to buck establishment tastes are congregating not in an art museum or mosh pit — but, ironically, at church...

Marshall's point is that to be rebellious today is to be Christian. I can't help but agree. But if one has studied history, one will find that being Christian has always been rebellious. Christ's preaching went so far against the Jewish leaders of the day that he was crucified. His Apostles also died brutal deaths for His sake. So it was with the many martyrs and not a few saints of the Church.  The world despises the Truth.  It has ever been since Eve bit the apple.

The only cure for wokeism is a return to Christianity.  Can I get an Amen?