
Christians Must Purify What Marxism Has Distorted
Commentary Some people blame Marx for Woke. I’m not denying that wokeness owes something to Marxism, and in particular neo-Marxism, but then Christian beliefs also underpin parts of the ideology. Let me explain. Both Marxism and Wokeness are products of the West. They take existing concepts, view them in new lights, and twist or modify them to novel ends. The West is a creation of Christianity, combined with Roman administration and Greek philosophy and science. It would be strange if Western-derived ideologies did not have a Christian skeleton, and this would explain why, despite the fact that the majority of Marxists and Wokeists are either atheists or agnostics, these philosophies have a firm hold on many in the churches—take liberation theology, for example, and the current Roman Catholic pope....
