Why the Old Orthodoxy is Preferable to the New

The change society is currently undergoing with the woke orthodoxy taking over all the elite institutions of society (government, corporations, cultural institutions, media, sports, film) is only analogous to the Christian takeover of Europe in the Middle Ages. In either case, a set of dogmas established hegemony and then worked to purge all dissent through force. Neither was ideal, but the Old Orthodoxy, because it contained within its doctrines the concept of free will, had the potential to retreat into the background, eventually allowing for pluralism, liberalism, and science as a way to harmonize all orthodox doctrines (including individual freedom). The New Orthodoxy lacks any conception of free will and therefore is less likely to retreat into the background as the Old Orthodoxy did. Illiberal and a counter-enlightenment tendencies are the inevitable direction and we are already heading down that path. Can we reverse it? That would require a religious awakening to strengthen the Old Orthodoxy, since there is, contra what atheists say, no “neutral ground”—a situation of non-Orthodoxy in which freedom flourishes. The only hope for enlightenment, science, and pluralism is an orthodoxy that prizes free will and only a religious orthodoxy has the resources to allow that.