content/drafts/ideology-is-the-general-case.md

   1 Title: Ideology Is the General Case
   2 Date: 2021-01-01
   3 Category: commentary
   4 Tags: ideology
   5 Status: draft
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   7 Friend of the blog Ninety-Three [writes](http://unremediatedgender.space/2020/Apr/peering-through-reverent-fingers/#isso-15):
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   9 > I'm curious about what nontrivial features of progressivism you think overlap with the central characteristics of the cluster of things described as religions. [Every cause wants to be a cult](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yEjaj7PWacno5EvWa/every-cause-wants-to-be-a-cult), and more broadly every set of beliefs wants to punish dissent ("Oh, you're one of those plebs who likes Marvel movies?"), so what makes either politics in general or progressivism in particular especially religionlike?
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  11 http://web.archive.org/web/20200222181925/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/08/gay-rites-are-civil-rites/
  12 https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/04/why-do-atheists-believe-in-religion/