How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
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.
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
No opposing quotes found.