When State Becomes Idol: The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Secular Activism at Dilley
NCR Online portal reports on a four-day, 45-mile pilgrimage organized by Japanese American activists, “faith leaders,” and immigration advocates to the Dilley Family Detention Center in Texas, demanding the closure of the facility. The event, led by groups such as Tsuru for Solidarity and Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministries, drew explicit parallels between the WWII internment of Japanese Americans and the current detention of immigrant families, employing interfaith prayers, Buddhist ministers, Mennonite pastors, and origami cranes as symbols of protest. The cited article relates a spectacle of religious syncretism and naturalistic humanitarianism that, while claiming to defend the vulnerable, systematically excludes the supernatural order, the Kingship of Christ, and the true moral law from its analysis, thereby reducing justice to a purely temporal, emotional, and ultimately idolatrous enterprise.
