Both Jesus of Nazareth and the Apostle Paul Were Woke...Just Saying.

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Woke. Unless you’re a desperate insomniac, being awake is almost always a good thing, yes? Yes, everywhere except in the MAGAt parallel universe, which will eventually self destruct though now is pervasively powerful in the former USA.

“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.” —Henry David Thoreau.

Sleep as a necessity for rest and, thus, physical and mental health is a gift. Sleep as a would-be escape from reality is unhealthy, potentially destructive, and short-lived as the realm of MAGAt-ritaville will be. In the mean time, being awake, WOKE, is good, necessary, enriching for individuals and societies.

The faux Christians known as the religious right (oh so religious, spiritual not in the least; right in direction only—otherwise, wrong in every conceivable way) claim to embrace biblical teachings (even though they freely toss all parts unsuited to their systematic evils). They do not, not evenly barely.

The Apostle Paul was not a sleepy guy. In his very earliest written teachings as an emerging leader in the expansion of the Jesus movement, for one example, he dictated these words to be enscrolled and delivered to the followers of the Way in Thessaloniki: “…let us not sleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober” (1 Thessalonians 5:6). Paul was WOKE. The Jesus whose teachings he boldly shared had been WOKE well ahead of Paul. We can see and say, therefore, it is not possible to be a follower of Jesus without also being WOKE.