КУЛТУРНИ РАТОВИ: НОВИ АТЕИЗАМ, ВОКИЗАМ И ХРИШЋАНСКА МИСИЈА
THE CULTURE WARS: NEW ATHEISM, WOKEISM, AND CHRISTIAN MISSION

Summary/Abstract: This paper contains a description and analysis of the so-called culture wars, which began in Christian civilization (especially in its Western part) after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001. After the first culture war, when the religious apologists confronted the representatives of the New Atheism movement, the West witnessed the rise of a postmodernist and extremely liberal movement known as “woke” (also “wokeism”). During the second culture war, the woke has, on the one hand, produced an unusual alliance between atheists and traditional Christians, while, on the other, gathering both atheists and religious people of postmodernist persuasions. Besides the analysis of these culture wars, the goal of the paper is to illuminate the possible origins of wokeism in the New Atheists’ public activity, i.e. in atheist nihilism as a result of a massive abandonment of Christianity, and also to point at the possible third culture war, during which Christianity should rely more on its traditional missionary methods to respond adequately to further dilution of religion caused by wokeism.

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