😁 I thought at least a few people would ask me this question.

I know I come across as very sure of myself, I've been told that online and in person, but I can honestly say I'm open to having my mind changed on almost any topic. And the less I know about a topic, the easier that is.

On the topic of race and race relations however, I know a lot. I've spent a lot of time researching and thinking and talking about it. And I go to great lengths to learn about it from a bunch of different viewpoints. So if you want to change my mind about that, you'll have to have given a comparable amount of thought. Either that, or present me with an idea that nobody else ever has.

As for the role of religion in the rise of these other ideologies, I don't want to believe that, because I'd really like humanity to get to a point where we leave all of that behind. But I think it's almost certainly true. As numerous people have observed, wokeness functions a lot like a religion, and I'm sure some people use it to fill a hole that Christianity would previously have filled.

But, in my opinion, all religions, including wokeness, feed those same weaknesses in our thinking; the willingness to believe things without good evidence. The willingness to accept comforting lies over uncomfortable truths. The willingness to express certainty about things we can't possibly know. And the willingness to hate and attack people who don't belong to "our tribe". "Woke" people can be guilty of all of these things, but so can Christians and Muslims.

p.s. Great suggestion about nihilism, I’m thinking about something that touches on that topic.