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Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by tonymet on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:37PM (#27489034)
I agree with you , and have been influenced by Zizek. We assume religions are primitive , but it’s likely that they are advanced stages of earlier ideologies. I’m expecting contemporary / secular ideology to evolve into a formal religion with canon , priesthood etc
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Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by opportune on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:56PM (#27489124)
Arguably that already exists in the form of politics/government, corporations, the military.

Based on my opinion that religion requires a belief in supernatural events, I would not call those religion per se. Definitely dogmatic. I think the parallels come from the tendency for human organizations to all take essentially the same structure, if you squint.

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Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by posix_me_less on Sunday June 13, 2021 @06:18AM (#27491337)
> politics/government, corporations, the military.

+political factions +institutionalized science +media

They all tell us what to think, "trust us we did and will do the hard thinking for you".

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