Asian-American conservative Kangmin Lee said on Sunday that “wokeism” is becoming a new secular religion that gives people a sense of purpose in the absence of traditional religious belief. “Wokeism is the next or the new secular religion.” Kangmin Lee told Jan Jekielek, host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” at CPAC 2021 on Feb. 28. “Most people worship something whether they are religious or not. And so this wokeness is this way for a lot of people who do not have a sense of purpose. “I think deep inside the human spirit, a lot of us are longing to fight for something and find meaning and purpose in life. … If you strip away religion from those people, and they don’t have anything to fight for, they’re going to look for something to fight for” which is many times causes that have been “fabricated … from the left and …