I say that because it how I felt back in the early 2000s. I watched people younger than me in the industry begin to focus on race and sex instead of merit. I believe I saw this pretty early on and one reason is because DEI has the same human nature problems that Christianity has. Moralism. Comparing ourselves to others and making calculations on how good we all are and how bad others are by comparison.

I remember telling a friend after attending a tech conference where DEI became a massive focus that these people are legalistic religious zealots. Its just a new religion. That was a long time ago and its only become more obvious.

What is even more interesting to me is how many in the DEI movement hate Christianity. That's despite the fact that the morals and character of Jesus to help the oppressed has influenced Western Civilization. Without the church and influence of Jesus you would not have DEI. Of course I don't think DEI is good but it is a distortion of something good just as legalistic religious Christians are a distortion of the true gospel.