THE NEW DOGMAS INFECTING OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM

Rex Murphy:  Churches imposed dogmas. They threatened those who rejected their dogmas with an eternity of hellfire. Accept or be damned. The freethinkers of the last century and a half were as one when they called for an end to the superstitious hold of religion, the elimination of all doctrines and an end to the rule of dogma.

   The dream was for an end to the regulation of thought, allowing freedom of thought and belief for all individuals. Dream on. The dogmas of religion may no longer hold force, but in our new and splendid 21st century, they have been replaced with the dogmas of political correctness, social justice and of the trinity of diversity, inclusion and equity.
   The threat of papal excommunication no longer keeps monarch or peasant awake. But offend the new doctrines and dogmas — say an offensive word, defy identity politics, cast a person with the “wrong” skin colour for a role in a movie, get caught reading Dr. Seuss in public, fail to applaud any of the insisted upon truths of woke scripture — and punishment quickly follows.