underrated internal tension on the right: 1. Leftism is a religion 2. Christianity decayed because of religious rationalism
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
I always felt this in my gut. Critiquing the " religious" ethos of the modern left by maligning it as "religion" always struck me as a Sam Harris/ Rubin tier argument
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Replying to @repairerofkayak @QuasLacrimas
If anything it speaks to a universal drive/religious impulse that rears its head up in many forms (when suppressed or forgotten)
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Replying to @repairerofkayak
Right. I don't mind using "It's just a hokey 20th c. religion" as a counter-argument b/c everyone understands you don't obey the laws of a cult unless you're in the cult
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
Its like how id talk about mormonism or jehov witness.
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exactly. If someone says "Well of course there is life on other planets, think of all the starchildren" I'd remind them I'm not a Mormon.
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