We're at risk of wokery becoming the new religion

CHRISTIANITY is sliding towards irrelevance in modern Britain. The religion that built our civilisation is no longer a dominant force in our society. Only 46 per cent of the population now describe themselves as Christian, down from almost 60 per cent just a decade ago, according to new figures from the 2021 Census.

- Leo McKinstry

The stark evidence of this decline in our traditional faith has inevitably provoked a deep sense of loss, even among many non-believers.

But as the Anglican church loses its way, wokery has become the official creed of our land, promoted by its followers with the kind of bullying fanaticism that infused the Cromwellian Puritans.

The progressive orthodoxy, which now prevails throughout the establishment, does not involve any attachment to a spiritual deity. But it resembles a zealous religious cult, complete with purity tests, witchhunts and heresy trials.

Despite their rhetoric about “inclusion”, the social justice warriors inhabit a culture obsessed with punishing any transgressions of its rules and view everything through the prism of its warped ideology.

MUCH of civic Britain increasingly lives under the influence of a bigoted minority that has no respect for history, tolerance, freedom or humanity.

A classic instance is the extraordinary decision of the Wellcome Trust, Britain’s largest medical research charity, to ditch its 15-year-old “Medicine Man” exhibition in London, which featured a range of curiosities from the past, including Napoleon’s toothbrush and Florence Nightingale’s slippers.