Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
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