Ah “religion,” such a slippery, inescapable thing. To be clear, I think a lot of this essay is oversimplified, but I resonated with this quote below.

“We have taken religion, with its innate possibility for sectarian conflict, and fed it through a polarization machine. No wonder that today’s politics can feel like a wasteland of anguished ranting—and like we are in hell already.”

How Social Justice Became a New Religion via Instapaper