Politics is religion, and the right is getting ready for the end times
7/6/19
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from The Washington Post,
3/18/19:
As politics has become a religion in so many lives, political discourse has taken on theological overtones.
What I am talking about is the appropriation — really, the profanation — of religious ideas to serve ideological purposes. During the 20th century, this was often the preserve of the left. Marxism provided a soteriology — a theory of salvation — that caused people to die and kill in service to a redemptive ideal. It is what made communism so appealing — and so dangerous. It gave oppression the veneer of idealism.
More recently, however, the populist right has taken on a distinctively religious tone.
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