(September 15, 2025 at 8:41 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: In theory, sure, but not in practice, and to the extent that we're willing to lay aside that the history and boundaries of western european nations were written by religious politics, and that they currently have their own overtly religious and ascendant right wing movements, the hypothetical bulwark in those nations is itself a secular civil religion. Same as here.
If everything's a religion, then nothing's a religion. What you're arguing is nonfalsifiable under those circumstances, so I won't bother any more.
