Lifesite Reports: Non-woke atheists have a problem – their worldview opens the door for wokeness.

Colin Wright is an evolutionary biologist and an atheist who holds to the truth that sex is binary.

He is also critical of transgender drugs and surgeries for minors and left academia due to hostility he faced for his factual views (though unorthodox in higher ed) about sex and gender. He recently suggested atheists are not to blame for the growth in wokeism.

“It’s possible that the decline in Christianity created a void that wokeness rose to fill. But who/what is to blame for that?” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

“It is the fault of atheists for lacking belief? Or is it the fault of Christianity for not being very factually believable?” he wrote on August 21.

A day earlier, Helen Pluckrose posted an essay on Wright’s Substack page, “Reality’s Last Stand,” titled “Atheism Did Not Cause Wokeness.” Pluckrose is a British author who is critical of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

She participated in the “Grievance Studies” hoax, where she, along with Portland State University Professor Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, had fake papers published. The papers were ostensibly about feminism, gender studies, and other socially leftist ideas, but were actually nonsense to prove the low publishing standards in academia.

“As we (anti-woke atheists) clearly see that wokeism is terrible for society, can we not admit that Christianity was better and consider going back to it?” Pluckrose wrote. “Absolutely not, no.”

While agreeing with Wright, she appears to take a contradictory stance that religion is rising, and so is wokeness, therefore atheism cannot be to blame.