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by NortySpock 1823 days ago
So, the American Civil Religion?

Dangerous History Podcast with Prof CJ https://profcj.org/ep124/

"Ever get the sense that the government and politics in the United States is kinda cult-y? If so, CJ thinks your spidey sense is justifiably tingling, and what you’re picking up on is the phenomenon known as the civil religion.

Join CJ as he discusses:

The concept of civil religion

The origins of the American civil religion, and a brief word on the scholarship on the concept

Some of the overtly religious elements that can be found in American government and politics, including: dogmas, rituals, sacred texts, holy places, sermons, sacrifices, sacred days, spells/mantras/incantations/prayers, music, sacred histories/narratives, temples, symbols/totems, priests, and saints

The ways in which people of different cultural and ideological predilections can — just like with conventional religion — interpret the civil religion in order to make it fit their preferences

How voting fits into this civil religion, and why CJ thinks a reasonable person should reject the civil religion — whether they are theists or not

1 comments

I think that Prof just described every human civilization that ever existed?