Our Modern Craze for Indulgences to Expiate the Sin of Being Born and Perhaps Not Being Miserable in Every Possible Way

Martin Luther would have been all over this

The woke movement, social justice warriors, the successor ideology, whatever you want to call our new civic religion, has been examined by many observers for its notable lack of mercy, forgiveness, or expiation of sin.

This is mostly true. There’s not really a way to permanently expunge the sin of having been born with some type of privilege, and you can see this is true, because that privilege must be permanently and repeatedly apologized for.

But the next best thing to actual forgiveness is gaining the provisional status of “ally” to more marginalized persons.

If you’re an ally, you get to stand on the self-declared “right side of history,” and the benefit of this is getting a provisional waiver from being the main target of outrage mobs.

So you want to be an ally, because this is how you become recognized as a provisionally good person, or virtuous organization, who has the right to go about your business and personal affairs without interference.

Being a good and virtuous person has it…