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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There's no such thing as rationality without teleology. Things are only rational to specific ends. I don't think it's surprising that you hear a lot of religion-substitute takes, since "thing that gives your life meaning" arguably all ARE religion.
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