Is Politics Becoming the New Religion?

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Broadcast on August 3, 2018

[wearelegion]

Politics & organized religion have always been in bed together. They’re also the two biggest causes of all serious problems in the world.

[firstname]

Politics is a religion:

- It’s mostly self serving.
-Based on ideals, values, and morals and not facts, evidence, and results.
-It’s divisive.
-Everyone believes their choice is the only correct one.
-It causes violence and wars.
-People try to “convert” others.

[Coffnfder]

No need to call politics religion, it's just about ideology.

[roshantiwari]

Prejudice is becoming religion not religion as political in United States 🇺🇸

[LeelooMinai]

Good segment - I have just linked it into some discussion where someone was arguing a position that secularism has killed far more people throughout the ages than religion (and it was in a larger context when it was argued that science without religion is bound to produce immoral atrocities.)

[TheGamer]

I think that the "politics is the new religion" thing is more about how tabu it was to talk about religion to other people and that now that religion is loosing ground as well as the fact that politics is more polarized politics is taking a similar role in terms of identity, not in terms of how unchanging the beliefs maybe, if that makes sense.

[lindenstromberg]

I think what he was trying to ask: "Are politics replacing religion as the leading dogmatic system of Americans?"
And yes, Americans are very culty and borderline fanatacal about political figures and labels. They will sacrifice all values and reason in order support their politician or label.

[wilbertjamodovar]

They rely on each other... But one can not be above the other if we call our self a Democracy.

[austaneousc]

A decline in institutionalised religion does not correlate to a reduction in superstition. Alternative medicine, star signs and "spirituality" have seen a great increase in popularity. People just aren't willing to accept that humanity is responsible for itself. Most people are smart enough to dream, but not enough question.

Politics can be a religion in this way, but I'd hesitate to call any particular ideology or political party a religion. People dig their heels in what they believe in, spirually or materially. I also dont think this is new in any way

[hadara]

"Name one ethical(moral) statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. (Then) think of a wicked(immoral) statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first -- I have been asking it for some time -- awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain."
~Christopher Hitchens

[CyGea]

Politics and religion have been connected on the right for decades, but recently many on the left have made their politics their religion.

[ellengran]

Religion is the context in which you put your life = How you have been socialized. This context tells you what is right and
wrong (for you). Some are being taught they have the right to kill/harm other people (survival of the strongest),
some are being taught they have a duty to care for others (Jesus). We dont know "Gods" will, but we do have a lot
of knowledge as to what makes a society good/bad (politics).

[Unprotected]

Religion is not just about what god(s) and supernatural stuff you believe in. There's a lot of baggage like history, legends, laws and moral codes and ethics. Religion is in many aspects a way of life centered around the supernatural entities adherents believe in. When atheists think of atheism they simply mean that they don't believe that god exists. When christians think of atheism they often assume that you don't affirm morals and ethics associated with religion.

[FGP_Pro]

Philosophy and especially ethics are the new religion. Idealist or Utilitarian or a hybrid/synthesis? Politics is the new old politics.

[EarthlingDean]

The methods of science should replace politics.

[frankm.]

If you think science is the same as religion, you don't understand science...

[RedZeshinX]

Politics and religion are subsets of ideology. You have a set core of beliefs falling under a group label that individuals subscribe to in order to feel comfort, community, identity and strength in an uncertain existence. While religion focuses on the afterlife, politics focuses on life itself. Both have their fanatics, their charlatans and demagogues, their provocateurs and prevaricators, their insights and blind spots, their shifts and movements. Both are as harmless and as dangerous as the people who use them.

[keaco]

I think you mean “passion” not religion.

[dport]

Tuesday Aug 7 we have primaries in Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, Washington talk about that.

[religiohominilupus]

Seeking ‘facts’ to substantiate your beliefs/ideologies is called confirmation bias, and it seems most repubs/capitalists are stuck on that as opposed to progressives who come to their conclusions because objective research led them to it—I could be wrong though so my apologies in advance if I hit a wrong turn.