I've always been irritated by the conservative trope that "X is a substitute for religion" -- with X standing for some modern thing that conservatives don't like. It's a truism that doesn't illuminate because in the past religion saturated cultural & intellectual life.
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I agree this is sometimes sloppy. You can be a liberal w/o liberalism being your religion but liberals make the reverse mistake: you can have a belief system with ritual, iconography, repentance, eschatology, etc that acts as a religion even if you say you’re not “religious.”
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To the extent that various belief systems have rituals, iconography etc. that's because rituals, iconography etc are a time-tested & useful ways to structure social life -- they are the socially functional part of all religion & much non-religion.
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My Druid friends tell me that all the time too.
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I see a lot in modern leftism that, unfortunately, reminds me of hardcore Christian conservatism. It really worries me.pic.twitter.com/ztUpiWX9ZH
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Netflix is a substitute for Bible stories
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