The Church of Social Justice

 

I am going to attempt to explain the Church of Social Justice from an outsider perspective. I am not one of the anointed or even a lay member, instead I am just a fascinated observer.

First off to understand the Church of Social Justice you must understand some of the language they use. Microaggressions are “the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.”

Trigger Warning “A statement at the start of a piece of writing, video, etc., alerting the reader or viewer to the fact that it contains potentially destressing material (often used to introduce a description of such content).

Safe space “a term for an area or forum where either a marginalized group are not supposed to face standard mainstream stereotypes and marginalization, or in which a shared political or social viewpoint is required to participate in the space.”

Now that the language has been defined we can take a look into the core doctrine of the Church of Social Justice. The core belief of Social Justice is in the Trinity of Equality of Outcome, Identity Politics, and Post Modern Socialism.

This Trinity is the highest belief in the Church and describes member’s world view. Equality of Outcome is something to strive for, the ultimate divine perfection of the world. It means that regardless of anything else the outcome for any endeavor should mirror a society’s population.

For example if a population has 50% men and 50% women any endeavor should be made up of 50% men and 50% women regardless of the talents of the individual. If a specific endeavor does not meet this requirement it falls short of this divine standard and is seen as profane.

Identity Politics is the hierarchy of which the Church is built. It is a ridged structure that separates people into groups based on identity. In this hierarchy certain identities are valued more than others. The people at the top of this hierarchy are viewed as closer to the divine then other members. They are the ones that get to speak directly to the divine Lived Experiences and as such can preach to the lower members of the Church.

It is their duty to educate the people who believe but cannot understand due to their identity as well as perform missionary works. This missionary work include going into places where people are ignorant of Social Justice such as companies, political structures, or any group/organization as well as preaching on the street.

Once they have entered these areas it is the missionary’s job to explain to the heathens how they are in danger from the seven deadly sins of Racism, Sexism, Misogyny, Bigotry, Transphobia, Islamophobia, and Homophobia. They seek to educate these heathens and convert them to the Church of Social Justice through a couple different methods.

First they try to educate people with their claims, which are to be accepted on faith as truth. If that does not work then they try to guilt people into following what they believe by accusing people of perpetuating one or more of the sins. If the person still does not convert then more drastic measure can be taken such as public shaming, forcing people out of an office/position, or lawsuits and mob justice.

Post Modern Socialism is the final piece in the Churches Trinity. This belief within the Church is that your reality is the true reality. That is to say that social constructs such as gender, sexual identity and biological gender are evils built by the Devil (more on the Church of Social Justice Devil later).

This means that everything is in your mind and if you believe it then it is true. This allows people within the Church to break away from the profane ideas of biology and science in favor of the truth of emotions and opinions/Lived Experiences as interpreted by the church.

At times parts of this Trinity clashes with one another and causes a split in the Church. This splitting causes smaller groups to identify as part of a broader Church of Social Justice, much the same way there are different sects of Christianity.

A few of these sects include, Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and the LBGTQIA+. Currently these sects exist together under the broader Church of Social Justice but there may be a time in the future where an ecumenical council is held and a reformation may occur. Although this typically happens once a Church or religious group has gained enough power, the Church of Social Justice prides itself on being the oppressed group, it remains to be seen if this will actually come to pass.

Identity Politics and Post Modernism clash when someone identifies as something else and the Church does not know where in the hierarchy they now belong. This question has not been answered fully by the Church of Social Justice but it will need to be addressed in the future.

The faith of the Church of Social Justice has a Devil included. This Devil comes in the form of White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy. This Devil can be found corrupting every part of the world and unless you adhere to the tenets of the Church of Social Justice then you are corrupted by this Devil.

White Straight Cis-gendered Males are seen as having been created in this Devils image and are inherently evil as well as indoctrinated in believing He isn’t real. The faithful know that the White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy is real and have a real fear and hatred of it.

Reactions to heathens range from an attempt to reeducate and indoctrinate to violently purging them. This can be seen in the University which are the earthly locations of the Church of Social Justice. It is here where the Church elders preach sermons on African-American Studies, Gender Studies, and Feminist studies.

I had the chance to attend one of these sermons while I was in college. It was fascinating how as a white straight cis-gendered male in a women’s literature class that the one time I contributed to the conversation, everyone even the preacher, listened, ignored and moved on as if I did not exist. It was a marvelous example of no platforming, a tactic used to protect the faithful from outsiders by limiting the speech of outsiders as hate speech and thus unholy.

Microaggressions are seen as attacks on members, as bad as the Roman Emperors feeding Christians to lions in the great circus maximus. Like any struggling religion it has picked up a few saints and martyrs along the way.

Michael Brown the Martyr and patron Saint of Hands up Don’t Shoot is believed to be the first person to put his hands in the air against the White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy and was killed for doing so. This started the tradition of adherents raising their hands in the air.

Colin Kaepernick is the Kneeling Saint who refused to accept the empire built by the White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy. Caitlyn Jenner the patron Saint of Transition. These are just a few of the saints and martyrs associated with the Church.

The Church also blesses events and scared texts by performing the blessing of a Trigger Warning. These blessing let the faithful know that despite how bad the following is the Church will be there for them. Members of the Church also consecrate holy ground and call it a Safe Space. People not of the faith or members not holy enough are denied access to these Safe Spaces.

These spaces are used for the Church leaders to escape from the profane world and discus matters concerning the faithful as well as commune with the divine Lived Experiences. The Church has no recognized leader yet but it is ripe for a charismatic passionate faithful leader to come along and guide the Church in the direction it needs to go to achieve the divine order of Equality of Outcome.

This Church, while not a new movement, has certainly gained traction over the past couple years. It grows in popularity and strength and has made headway into the mainstream. From its core belief in the Trinity of Equality of Outcome, Identity Politics, and Post Modernism it seeks to stand as a bulwark against the evil of the White Straight Cis-gendered Male Capitalist Patriarchy.

Its followers bravely stand against the uneducated heathens in massive mobs of righteousness and are converting college students in astounding numbers. Is this Church the next mainstream religion or will it fall to the dust bin of history as many cults before it have? Only time will tell.