Americanisation of the English Right

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I say this, of course, because The Times—being the unimpeachable oracle of youth culture—ran a big survey on Gen Z last week, complete with some deeply profound vox pops. And woe to your septic heart! their words did not reek of LARPing, for this great religious revival was evidently reshaping their views on dating, sex, and marriage.

One simply must understand: atheism is the aberration, the blip. Religion isn’t some flimsy add-on—it’s the very chassis of civilization itself, without which society, presumably (one must think) crumples like a dodgy motor on the north circular.
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Ordinarily, once a society has slipped into the quicksand of atheistic decrepitude, it remains trapped, its religious lifeblood drained to a faint, pitiful murmur, and its children raised by parents whose only sacred text is a BuzzFeed listicle. The downward spiral, we are told, is inevitable—until, by some miraculous twist of fate, salvation arrives in the form of devout immigrants and that great modern oracle, the internet, whose infinite trove of contradictory nonsense has somehow conspired to resurrect the divine signal from its death rattle.
This providential turn of events, of course, neatly aligns with another fascinating quirk of modern progressive liberalism, which has developed an uncanny ability to champion absolute personal freedom while simultaneously constructing an ever-more labyrinthine system of rules to police it. One is encouraged to be libertarian—provided one does so within the baroque, ever-shifting parameters of the Correct Moral Framework™, ensuring that all interactions, particularly with women, are conducted with the pious reverence of a medieval monk addressing the Virgin Mary, lest one commit the unspeakable crime of saying the wrong thing in the wrong tone at the wrong time.
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Atheist progressivism, in its inexorable march toward self-parody, had already taken on the trappings of a full-fledged religion—though, tragically, one stripped of anything so gauche as transcendence or mystery. In place of spirituality, it offered the rapturous experience of tweeting the Correct Opinion™; in lieu of philosophical inquiry, it provided the holy sacrament of denouncing heretics in the town square of social media. The grand, unanswerable questions that have tormented the human soul for millennia—life, death, meaning—were, mercifully, set aside in favor of far more pressing theological concerns, such as whether a comedian’s decade-old joke constituted blasphemy, or whether an insufficiently enthusiastic ally was, in fact, a secret agent of the Great Darkness.
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The iron laws of religion, having been deemed passé by our enlightened age, were of course not abolished but merely smuggled into the ever-expanding bureaucratic beast that is the legal system—now the true high priest of modern morality. Where once a sinner might have been cast from the village for heresy, today they are simply banished from polite society via an HR investigation and a tersely worded email. And yet, in an act of truly breathtaking self-delusion, these same people proudly declare themselves "free from religion," as though replacing fire-and-brimstone damnation with a LinkedIn apology and mandatory sensitivity training constitutes some grand victory for human liberation.
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Woke, in its boundless wisdom, conjures up doctrines so drenched in mystical absurdity that even the most opium-addled Victorian theosophist might pause for breath—yet, miraculously, it never once realises this. It constructs invisible forces, omnipresent yet curiously imperceptible to the uninitiated, that govern all human affairs with the precision of a vengeful deity. It ordains sacred castes of the Oppressed and the Damned, each marked by inescapable cosmic forces that must be neither questioned nor examined too closely. It demands ritual purification—though not through prayer or fasting, but through the modern sacraments of public self-abasement and corporate-sponsored struggle sessions. And yet, with a straight face, it scoffs at the religious as delusional simpletons, utterly blind to the fact that it, too, has built itself a grand cathedral—albeit one made of hashtags, grievance studies, and the ceaseless hum of performative outrage.
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