[oooyay]

There's a lot of things that I'd qualify as "religious" that I probably wouldn't as a kid, even in my very Catholic upbringing. Most of the companies I've worked for command loyalty and have rituals that border on religious ceremonies. They use legal avenues rather than social avenues for control, but who's to say the modern corporate ethos isn't a cult? I feel semi-confident in saying that broadly of Fortune 500 companies and especially technology industry companies (and their leaders.)

That isn't to say rationalists on the whole are one thing or another, but rather my hypothesis is as society gets more desperate and divided this kind of order is a natural consequence.