The following comes from my book, The Triple Path (available as a free download in PDF or ebook formats, or for sale in hard copy and ebook formats wherever books are sold–the book lists  references for the e sources for this passage). My posts from recent days have been about the new religion of Wokism. I will be posting more in coming days on the subject. This passage from The Triple Path (Virtue 4) is particularly relevant:

1. Beware the zealots, who are turbulent fanatics, sneering agitators, nihilistic cynics—they who triumphantly celebrate evil, who scoff and nag, mock and scold, quibble and criticize.

2. Oppose at every turn the zealots, who are corrupt and abominable in their doings, with mouths full of cursing and bitterness and hands swift to do violence and shed blood. Destruction, unhappiness, and dissembling is in their hearts, and the way of peace have they rejected. Thinking themselves wise, they have not even knowledge. They work mischief and delight in consuming God’s people as if they were candy. They call not upon God, having no fear of Him before their eyes.

3. O, how wicked are the zealots, who speak lies and vanity, with flattering lips and a double heart; who exult in making this generation into one where the wicked walk on every side and the vilest men and women are exalted.

4. Fight at every turn the zealots, who seek to dominate by disintegrating and destroying, who fill the air with accusation and humiliation and use violence to muffle and suppress the voices of those with whom they disagree.

5. The zealots are blind leaders of the blind. And when the blind lead the blind, both will fall into some pit.

6. The zealots preach that having faith in what they think they already know will save. What fools! It is having faith in that which is beyond your understanding that will allow you to reform and transform yourself into something greater, impelling you to sacrifice your current self for the greater self beckoning to you in the future.

7. The zealots claim they can release and appease you by tak­ing away God, family, and tradition. What fools! They reject the very things that regenerate, transform, and liberate.

8. The zealots are blind to the spiritual, thus insisting on mun­dane and profane remedies for everything. When their material remedies for spiritual problems inevitably fail, the zealots lack the capacity to understand why and instead foolishly demand that what is already failing be forced ever more aggressively.

9. Beware the zealots, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

10. Woe to the zealots, who seek to destroy the foundations of society, tearing up good and wise traditions that have proved them­selves firm and steady against the tremors and upheavals of hard experience, replacing them with empty holes containing only the idle fancies of daydreamers.

11. Woe to the zealots, who fight happiness and light and joy and meaning, who mock following tradition as the worship of ashes, never understanding that it is the preservation of fire.

12. Woe to the zealots, who brag about their righteousness while flaunting their practice of terrible wickedness.

13. Woe to the zealots, who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

14. Woe to the zealots, who turn back repeatedly to foolishness and evil, as a dog returns to his own vomit or a washed pig goes back to wallow in the mud.

15. Woe to the zealots, who in their unrighteousness and ungodliness seek to suppress the truth.

16. Woe to the zealots, who claim to be wise, yet speak only dark foolishness.

17. Woe to the zealots, who eagerly abandon the truth about God for assuaging lies, who discard reverence for the divine so they can set up their lusts as idols.

18. Woe to the zealots, who are like a dog in the oxen’s man­ger. Neither does the dog eat, nor does he let the oxen eat.

19. Woe to the zealots, who load the people with terrible burdens, yet do not lift a finger to ease them.

20. Woe to the zealots who create heavy lies to deceive the people and weigh them down, sinking them into the depths of evil.

21. Woe to the zealots, who claim to speak truth to power, but are really cowards who hate the truth and only ever speak power to truth.

22. Woe to the zealots, who shout their pretended ideals mere­ly to justify their resentments and hatreds, who claim to care about the poor but really just hate the rich, who feign concern for the downtrodden, but just detest those who are successful.

23. Woe to the zealots, who pretend to embody human compassion, yet show none to their enemies, while still screaming their demands that their enemies show compassion for them.

24. Woe to the zealots who, lying to themselves and the world, preach tolerance as the highest virtue, yet embrace an abundance of evils and neglect the weightier matters: morality and loyalty, and wisdom, virtue, and hope.

25. Woe to the zealots, blind guides who strain at a gnat, but swallow a camel.

26. Woe to the zealots, hypocrites, who claim to protect the weak, yet defend and celebrate the murdering of babies.

27. Woe to the zealots who feel guilty consciences, yet refuse to repent and instead seek to corrupt others like unto themselves, as if bringing more people into the misery of sin could turn their evil into goodness.

28. Woe to the zealots, who spare no expense and make every effort to spread their evil message to gain even a single convert, yet make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as themselves.

29. Woe to the zealots, who devour innocent youth and excrete darkness.

30. Woe to the zealots who do all their deeds to be seen of others, who relish appearing morally superior, yet all the while are working to advance evil and fight goodness.

31. Woe to the zealots who claim their doctrines offer comfort, even though they really bring shame and darkness. They are like blankets covered with the germs of a deadly plague—the people who go to them for warmth only realize too late they have exposed themselves to death.

32. Woe to the zealots, who have hidden and destroyed the keys of knowledge, locking the people away from the presence of God, yet refusing to enter themselves, seeking only to hinder those trying to enter.

33. Woe to the zealots, that brood of vipers, who turn the goodness of our society into hell.