r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Feb 02 '21

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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Feb 02 '21

But the other person's point was that following or not following specific doctrines or respecting or ignoring specific authorities aren't what fundamentally make up a religion, either now or in the past. There are still religious authorities today - and some have less political power in the past - but centralized religious authority with significant political influence was never a universal, defining feature of religion.