The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

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The priests of the new religion say: “Give me a healthcare bureaucracy and some Stonewall training, and I’ll give you a woman too afraid to question the man in the next bed .The journalist Helen Lewis explored the link between contemporary social justice and religious faith in a recent BBC Radio 4 documentary, The Church of Social Justice. Doyle argues convincingly that social justice campaigners – ‘New Puritans’ as he dubs them – have actually made the world more racist and intolerant, the very opposite of their stated aims. I was firstly drawn to Doyle’s book because I had even started listening to audiobooks about the 17th century Puritans, to see how their views and perspectives were in alignment with this emerging mob I saw mostly coming out of the United States.

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ad infinitum) the meaning and utility of language and thereby any possibility of sensible dialogue is perverted. Arguing against affectations like pronouns makes you sound reactionary, even though there's nothing progressive about violating grammar. It’s pretty telling that writing a book whose message essentially boils down to “maybe identitarians shouldn’t be so certain that their political positions are objectively correct” resulted in the author being accused of fascist sympathies. Again, the religious undertones are plain: “ Their s is a belief in the perfectibility of humankind . Terrified hostages were herded on to hotel roofs and forced to show their passports; American and British citizens were summarily executed, Jews at the cultural centre were tortured.