Leftism as religion
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Leftism as religion
The Repentagon trained me to feel at ease in odd, insular, extreme environments, a skill I wouldn’t give up for anything, and Christianity formed my deepest instincts. It gave me a leftist worldview: a desire to follow leaders who feel themselves inseparable from the hungry, the imprisoned, and the sick.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Republicanism is the religion, and they’ve been fighting for that for at least 25 years—just to turn it into a religion. So that it doesn’t matter what they do—and let’s be honest, Trump is probably one of the worst humans in the whole universe—my dad will never be able to do anything other than be on this “religion team” because he’s told that it’
... See moreBeau Underwood • Baptizing America
mega-identities, where people’s political views and religious beliefs are merged with their social and regional preferences.
Bob Smietana • Reorganized Religion
While left and right seem totally polarized, they share one thing: the worship of the self.
Freddie deBoer • No One Is Kenough
The young would-be feminists flocking to “WitchTok” for advice on how to conjure love and manifest success are hardly atheists. Neither are the young men of the right who, if not crowding back into traditionalist churches, grope for a spirituality of strength, vitality, and meaning among the aesthetic ruins of ancient warrior cults. These are peopl... See more