By David Hegg

Through a conversation with a learned friend, I recently came to see the eerie reality that what we know as “woke” ideology is a post-modern adaptation of the ancient philosophy, gnosticism. The gnostic worldview, coming from the Greek word for “knowledge” (gnosis), taught that the material world was created by a lesser deity and has always been fatally flawed. It could only be transcended through “secret knowledge.” That is, “salvation” was found in an esoteric wisdom that granted a person the ability to see the errors and terrors around them, which the average person was blind to.

Today, woke ideology trumpets the same belief. The woke folk believe the rest of us are asleep and unable to see, much less recognize the social systems of capitalism, traditional religion with its sexual restrictions, “whiteness” and many other things in Western civilization, as structurally oppressive and active in perpetuating inequality and injustice. Just like gnosticism that insisted on a new order, woke ideology looks at the Western world and concludes it is fraught with unsolvable, inherent evil and cannot be fixed. Instead, it must be destroyed and replaced with a new, enlightened order equipped with a woke ethical, moral and practical........

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