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I think that’s certainly true. The complications are perhaps this:

We were talking about mitochondria the other day. For those watching at home, mitochondria is the power factory found in most animal cells. That energy comes in the production of ATP which is reminiscent of charging a battery or winding up the rubber band on a balsa wood airplane.

Because mitochondria has its own independent genome that shows substantial similarity to bacterial genomes (Wiki), it’s thought that some ancient cell swallowed this bacteria and thus began a new and powerful symbiotic relationship. But that’s just a guess.

But it could have happened something like that. And the idea of an existing institution swallowing something else and being substantially changed by it is readily apparent. This is how poison works. Or feminism. Or genderism. Or victimology. Or anti-white racism. Or anti-male sexism. Or anti-Americanism itself.

Our institutions, including religion, have swallowed these various offshoots of Cultural Marxism. And whether they have provided a powerful and robust energy source for these institutions or instead act more like a virus is up for debate. I think the latter. Most who are involved emotionally and ideologically in this stuff would say the former, that all these creaky institutions are the better for the energy brought by the striving for “tolerance,” “equality,” “non-judgmentalism,” and “diversity.”

Maybe. Maybe not. As Dennis Prager often says, “I prefer clarity over agreement.” The fundamental problem comes when moral ideas are subservient to ideas of race, class, or gender. You can’t have objective values that transcend mere superficial details if the superficial details are given preeminence.

And that’s what has happened in most churches and synagogues. They’ve swallowed earthly Cultural Marxism and thus have no way of engaging G-d or absolute ideas, values, and metaphysics. They can reshuffle that Cultural Marxist deck a hundred times and they're not going to produce a vision of this world that isn’t thoroughly grounded in the baseness of this world despite the loud trappings of Kumbaya.

In some ways, we’re waiting for a Moses and a Paul to bring these institutions back to their founding, of a God who commands not identity politics but for people to “act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.”

Human nature is so petty, debased, egotistical, and narrow that such an aspiration is why Matthew 7:13-14 makes so much sense: “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

And when a pastor who I personally know brags about the number of atheists who attend his church, I’m thinking that gate is a bit wide at the moment in a great many places. Yes, we need to take the plank our of your own eye so that we can remove the speck from our brother’s eyes. That’s all fair and reasonable. Throwing the first stone, and all that.

But anyone should be able to see that an earthly, almost pagan, religion based on the supposed ability to bring love and peace to all by focusing on grievances having to do with race, class, and gender is the path to destruction. Jews and Christians face that same challenge. The differences between them in regards to orthodoxy could be seen as mere specks compared to the plank of Cultural Marxism.