It will never cease to amaze me the ability of American businesses to turn a purely commercial enterprise into a fundamental component of the identity of a huge swath of the population. See the NRA and the NFL, for example.
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That's an incredibly interesting idea. I wonder if a) how it fits with
@antoniogm's thesis about secular religion https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-holy-church-of-christ-without …, and b) if it works the same in social-democratic societies
Yes, completely agree: capitalism denudes the civic landscape of everything other than the market, turning everything into a marketing problem. Converting to Judaism mostly to implant 'Avinu malkeinu' in my daughter's head instead of some mindless ditty used to sell shoes.
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Reminds me of something I read once, about allowing children to have a religious education to inoculate them against sects
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