underrated internal tension on the right: 1. Leftism is a religion 2. Christianity decayed because of religious rationalism
I see; you mean you can't understand the Social Gospel without understanding the ways in which it was a capital-R theistic Religion?
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I guess the two senses I think of for "religion" are "public source of/justification of law/rule" and "piety", as in "true religion consists of visiting widows and orphans in their affliction"
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ah, okay. I see those two as inextricable because the public-philosophy bit always devolves in marginal cases into to the ad-hominem bit (which is why ministers telling their parishioners the sovereign authorities are evil leads to angry mobs)
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i don't think they can be disconnected either, but there's a lot of political mileage to be gotten out of pretending you can
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