The country is indisputably undergoing processes of phylogenesis—political "tribes" have shared flows of information and people, a common canon and narrative, even prohibitions against miscegenation(!!!). The pseudoreligions they coalesce around are orthogonal to religion proper.
This isn't an entirely organic process, of course—it's the (mostly intended) result of the conscious choices of elites. If elites chose differently—had incentive to choose differently—different results would obtain.
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The Cultural Revolution is no longer happening in China. Maybe ours will burn out as well. The question is what comes after.
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