Social Justice As Religion
I watched Britt Hartley's video " The 7 New Religions Reshaping America" on her Youtube channel, No Nonsense Spirituality. As an agnostic, I was very interested in seeing which de facto religion I might fall into. While I have possibly dabbled in a few others, the one that stood out to me was social justice as faith. I have long ago noticed how social justice, and generally being on the left, has taken on aspects of the Catholic Church in a way that is somewhat disturbing to me. I wish someone could map out all the sins that have fallen prey to cancel culture over the years and put them on some kind of spectrum; much that was cancelled was atrocious behavior, but I have memories of hearing about some 'minor sins' that got the same treatment. While I have no interest in defending celebrities (they have enough privilege swirling around them), I was bothered by the implications of people criticizing and nitpicking celebrity behavior as they were. What does this mea...
