Your skepticism is well warranted. Unfalsifiable theory, dogma you can't question, purity tests, good vs evil, original sin, heresy, excommunication, self-flagellation and so on... It's a religion and Kafkatrap, but not yet widely recognized as such.
Further explanation:
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/intellectual-fraud-robin-d...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/why-third-...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jonathan-haidt-on-the-cultural-...
https://unherd.com/2020/01/modern-politics-is-christianity-w...
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html