20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.