DOUGLAS MURRAY: I thought the culture wars would stop when Covid struck. Now, things have become so toxic... that we're living through the Age of Mass Derangement

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[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The people with the most to lose and will likely be the heaviest persecuted will be those who practice religions other than the state sanctioned one (atheism). Atheism's core fundamental dogmas and ideological theories, such as scientism and statism, lend credence to lifestyles and movements such as LGBT, trans rights, BLM etc.

Conservatives, classical liberals, and alternative religious practitioners stitch as Christians or Jews are now at the very heart of counter culture. At present, most things happen in a social control context, not state sanctioned (e.g. grant napear being fired for stating all lives matter, a woman on a patio enjoying a drink and being harassed for not raising her fist for BLM ETC).

Believe that marriage is a religious institution defined by God and the state shouldn't be endorsing hetero/homo-sexual marriages, believe that individuals should have the freedom to choose to wear a mask or not, vaccines, etc etc.

These are currently social and/or civil punishments (e.g. lose your job or they take your Facebook account). But it's fairly likely if you don't want to teach your kids being tranny or gay is a mental health condition or a choice, the climate is always changing in part due to humans but the works isn't going to end in 10 years, etc etc, that there will be punishment from the state as well.

Being gay is to be in a protected class.

[–]jet199[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Believe that marriage is a religious institution defined by God

The trouble with this belief is that its complex ahistorical.

The vast majority of cultures have some form of marriage. The idea predates any abrahamic religion. In fact the church only got interested in marriage around a thousand years ago when they realised controlling marriage was a way to control the nobility. So for a thousand years after Christ all marriages in Christian countries were non religious.

Marriage is fundamentally a property contract to make running a shared household easier. That's what it's good for and that's why it's survived as a concept for thousands of years.