Peggy Noonan: Charlie Kirk and the New Christian GOP

I mean, Noonan isn't the most judicious thinker...

This is kind of a leap.

But:

(a) It would (or at least could) be mostly bad, IMO

and

(b) It's something I've long feared.

   I'm not religious. But I do think that Christianity is generally a strength of the West...so long as it remains a kind of stabilizing background force, crowding out more dangerous religions--Islam, most notably--and giving a lot of people something like a sense of the meaningfulness of life.

   But a burst of evangelical enthusiasm is likely to be bad.

   And, as I've said many times, one of my nagging fears is that the red team will get crazier before the blue team starts returning to its senses. And the blue team still seems plenty crazy to me--maybe a smidge less insane? Is that wishful thinking? So if there's a revival of the religious right...we're probably in trouble.

   Given that Woketarianism is so cultish/religion-like, maybe such a revival would crowd it out too...but I doubt it. There are virtually no woke-friendly people on the right.

   (Incidentally, one of the creepier things I've heard from religious folks is that their perfectly ordinary churches went woke(!). I know a guy who tells me that he and his wife left their long-time church because it went nutso with the stuff. And there's no dearth of rainbow-bedecked churches and "nonbinary" preachers on th' YouTube... I mean, if you can't trust churches to hold the line against Woketarianism...well...what the hell??? It's like the Borg or something.)

   I've noticed for a couple of years now that loudmouthed actual liberals of my stripe--like Ayan Hirsi Ali and Michael Shellenberger and such folk--have seemed to become more favorably-disposed toward religion. Which is cool. I mean, I'm not the evangelical atheist I used to be... 

   But, anyway: put me down as officially concerned. Not about religion generally, nor sane varieties of Christianity...but about a revival of an '80s-style religious right.