#MolueMonologue |#DonKenobi | #FaithAndDiscernment | #CheapGrace | #AntiWokeChurch
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Two priests. One hosts an AI forum at the Vatican. The other rants about how much he “hates Woke.”
This, my friends, is what Bonhoeffer called cheap grace—religion without repentance, faith without justice, Christianity without Christ.
He walked in.
Slight of stature.
Looking uncannily like Louis Farrakhan—no kidding.
He cleared his throat… and began to speak.
What do you call a low-hanging, half-virtue…
a cheap thought… or an opinion, paraded in public—
an opinion anyone can have, without qualification, making it worthless—
but which people imagine elevates them morally… or religiously?
That’s the question.
Hold it in your mind.
Yesterday and Today
Yesterday, I watched a priest talk about Woke.
“I hate Woke,” he said.
And he rambled on and on about how evil it was—
without once explaining what exactly was evil about it.
That was yesterday.
Today, I read about another priest—
a prelate, in fact—
hosting a forum on Artificial Intelligence in the Vatican.
Two priests.
Both American.
Both exalted.
One is doing great things for humanity.
And the other?
Railing against Woke.
Does he really believe that hating Woke will be commended by God?
That at the gates of heaven, the Lord will say:
“Well done, faithful servant. You told them you hated Woke.”
Come on.
Let’s take a step back.
What Is Woke?
What is Wokeism?
Everyone claims to hate it.
No one defines it.
“Woke” comes from African American Vernacular English—
Stay woke.
It meant: stay alert to injustice.
To racism.
To police brutality.
To systemic discrimination.
Revived by the Civil Rights Movement.
Resurrected by Black Lives Matter.
Then it expanded—
to include sexism, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental justice,
and economic inequality.
At its root, being Woke meant:
Conscious of injustice.
Striving for fairness.
Practicing empathy toward the marginalized.
Questioning norms that perpetuate inequality.
That’s it.
So Why Do They Hate It?
Why do these priests—
these churchpreneurs, these Lassitutes—
hate it so much?
(He leans forward.)
Yes, I said Lassitutes.
A contraction of lassitude and that other word…
for those who run after anyone who feeds their pecuniary appetites.
They lap up every ridiculous teaching
these Christian haters of Woke dish out.
But I ask you—
Do they hate Woke because they hate awareness of injustice?
Because they love injustice?
Would Jesus be anti-Woke?
Would He hate Woke too?
Their Definition
Now, to be fair, let’s hear their version.
They say Woke means:
Performative virtue.
Cancel culture.
Victimhood.
Ideological policing.
Hypocrisy.
Really? That’s why you hate it?
Performative virtue? Isn’t that what you do every Sunday?
Cancel culture? You’ve silenced more dissent than anyone in history.
Victimhood? You invented the grievance industry.
Hypocrisy? Please.
You preach tolerance but practice exclusion—every single week.
Look in the mirror.
Anti-Wokists are exactly what they claim to despise.
Hollow Virtue & Cheap Grace
Let’s find better words:
Virtue-signaling.
Halo-virtue — a fake halo worn for show.
Faux-morality.
Cheap grace — Bonhoeffer’s phrase:
Forgiveness without repentance. Baptism without discipline.
Communion without confession. Christianity without the Cross.
Hollow virtue.
Phariseeism.
That’s what this anti-Woke crusade really is.
Baldwin’s Mirror
It was James Baldwin who said:
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly
is because they sense, once hate is gone,
they will be forced to deal with pain.”
That’s it.
That’s why they cling.
Without hate, they’d have to face themselves.
They’d have to confront their fear, their privilege, their comfort
built on the backs of the broken.
So they must hate us—
otherwise, they’d hate themselves.
The Cry of the Oppressed
With all the wealth disparity, the privilege disparity,
the disparity in hopes, in dreams, in opportunities—
with all the historic injustices stacked like bricks on our backs—
why do they still hate us?
What did we ever do to them?
We were stolen from Africa.
Cut away from our language, our land, our people, our culture.
No trauma is ever enough trauma for us.
What the f** did we do?*
And yes—I said it.
You can go tell the Dean I used a nasty word.
I don’t care.
Because he doesn’t like me anyway.
Final Word
While some religious leaders strive to make the world better,
others are handing out cheap grace—
empty bread, empty wine.
But Paul says in Philippians 4:8:
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things.”
So turn your back
on every priest, pastor, deacon, or Lassitute
who talks mindlessly about Wokeism.
Turn. Your. Back.
Class dismissed.
— Don Kenobi
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