Leftism as religion
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Leftism as religion
Jules Evans defined a religion as a system that binds us in religio: a kind of sacredness, obligation, faith and “cosmic certainty” towards a particular set of precepts. Those outside the religio are framed as “existential threats”, with a strong in-out dynamic bound by a common transcendent ideal.
Alexander Beiner • Is Religion Coming Back?
t the risk of taking this idea to its breaking point, I'll suggest that maybe some of the crazier beliefs held by members of a group (whether a religion, a cult, a nation, or a political party) are, in effect, symbolic sacrifices of knowledge . Being politically correct or religiously orthodox is a way of sacrificing truth on the altar of loyalty.
... See moreKevin Simler • Religion, Politics, and Self-Suppression
For example, young people who have lost their religious faith as a result of a confrontation with multiplicity of truth may discover a political philosophy and cling to that as dogmatically as they once did their religious convictions.