The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.
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Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
We need a new religion.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it's at that point, I think, historically, that you start to see people saying maybe the state should not associate itself with any religion. Maybe there shouldn't be any official religion.