WOKE! and WWJD

It is not uncommon for "Woke" people to lecture practicing Christians on how they think Jesus would respond to their Woke dogma.

Their onslaught can be disconcerting and it can be hard to think in the moment. So, it can be useful to have a few go-to Bible passages that we can use to test the Woke dogma.

White-guilt

This is really a trash-can of related ideas. Male-guilt. Reparations. Non-LGBT-guilt and so on.

One passage is John 9:1-3

As he passed by he (Jesus) saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.

This passage addresses Old Testament ideas of "Generational Guilt" where misfortune will follow the sinner's family for seven generations. Jesus responds that the guilt of previous generations is not the cause of misfortune and not what we should be focusing on. Rather, we should be attempting to discern and bring to reality how God can be made visible through our lives.

A second passage is Mark 7:18-22

He (Jesus) said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) “But what comes out of a person, that is what defiles. From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.

So the egg and the sperm that combined to make a white, cis-male cannot be a cause of guilt because they came from outside that person.

Intentions matter more than outcomes

Another pillar of Woke thought is that intentions matter more than outcomes and that the giver's resulting sense of altruism and self-righteousness is the ultimate metric of the purity of their intention.

James 2:15-17

If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it? So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

I think this verse speaks directly to the Woke idiots who feelz so good about encouraging grade-school kids to cut off their junk and take hormones.

Another passage that speaks to this is in Luke 9.

“Two people went up to the temple area to pray;
one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector.
The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself,
‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity —
greedy, dishonest, adulterous — or even like this tax collector.
I fast twice a week,
and I pay tithes on my whole income.’
But the tax collector stood off at a distance
and would not even raise his eyes to heaven
but beat his breast and prayed,
‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’
I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former;
for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”