{"id":4887,"date":"2022-01-26T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:31:20","slug":"thinking-christianly-about-john-mcwhorter-and-woke-racism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/thinking-christianly-about-john-mcwhorter-and-woke-racism-2","title":{"rendered":"Episode 1: Thinking Christianly About John McWhorter and Woke Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sap-embed-player\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/subsplash.com\/+7kvr\/embed\/mi\/+4ndh57m?audio&amp;video&amp;info&amp;logoWatermark&amp;shareable&amp;embeddable\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">div.sap-embed-player{position:relative;width:100%;height:0;padding-top:56.25%;}div.sap-embed-player>iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;}<\/style>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In his book, <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Woke-Racism-Religion-Betrayed-America\/dp\/0593423062\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Woke-Racism-Religion-Betrayed-America\/dp\/0593423062\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Woke Racism: How A New Religion Has Betrayed Black America,&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> John McWhorter provides one of the most cogent responses to date to the visceral &#8220;woke mob&#8221; which has been muffling America&#8217;s civil discourse on race since before the killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In episode one of this new God &amp; Culture Podcast, &#8220;Recovering the Christian Mind,&#8221; Pastor Paul Edwards laments Professor McWhorter&#8217;s comparison of the woke mob to Christianity. McWhorter does so in order to make a broader point &#8211; a legitimate one &#8211; that the woke mob are motivated and animated by the tenants of a new religion. But Pastor Paul fears that Christians &#8211; especially of the conservative evangelical variety &#8211; will be so put off by this comparison, they will not get passed it to see the legitimate points about &#8220;woke racism&#8221; Professor McWhorter is making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, &#8220;Woke Racism: How A New Religion Has Betrayed Black America,&#8221; John McWhorter provides one of the most cogent responses to date to the visceral &#8220;woke mob&#8221; which has been muffling America&#8217;s civil discourse on race since before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/thinking-christianly-about-john-mcwhorter-and-woke-racism-2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4893,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}