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
religion in the #1 sense is one of those "not whether, but which" sort of things
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Replying to @00lshr
agreed. But do you think it's enough to say "Oh it's two different senses?" Because if Christian, then that also answers the "which" question (and excludes various alternatives).
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
part of what you run into is meta-level vs object-level stuff. like, "leftism is a religion" gets hard to make sense of if you want to compare 2018 lefty doctrinal content with 1918's. But there's certainly continuity there
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Replying to @00lshr
say more, what do you think is the essence of the 1918/2018 comparison
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
the organizing principle of leftism is power, and doctrine shifts to accommodate whatever is needed to achieve it. I might even go so far as to say "leftism is a religion" only in the sense that every political formula is religious, a justification of right to rule
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That is a good point. So we probably need an operational distinction between "TCY secular humanism," which informs a certain way of life, and leftism-as-powerlust
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