> Religion may be pervasive in cultural norms and social mores, but by no means are they as pervasive into everything we do as public policy are.
Not that long ago religion WAS public policy (and depending where you live on the globe it still is; it's a spectrum).
We slowly segregated religion out of the business mattering for everyday life, but that just left a void what got filled by the same social and psychological mechanism that underpins religions.
While I believe it's incorrect to state that the current identity based political climate is just religion in disguise, it does share a hell lot of characteristics to dismiss the ties.
Not that long ago religion WAS public policy (and depending where you live on the globe it still is; it's a spectrum).
We slowly segregated religion out of the business mattering for everyday life, but that just left a void what got filled by the same social and psychological mechanism that underpins religions.
While I believe it's incorrect to state that the current identity based political climate is just religion in disguise, it does share a hell lot of characteristics to dismiss the ties.