This article rests in whole on the false assumption as if the practices and political movements described therein were indeed religious or constitute religions.

The author may be forgiven for not having a clue what religion is, demonstrating his total ignorance throughout the article, left, right and center - but we should know better.

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Dear Daffy,

While the author is so ignorant, from you, since you understand better, I would not expect such sloppy language:

«This has always been the case with Christian-ism and Islam-ism which were and still are State religions.»

How possibly can a dog, even a brown dog, be a brown cow?
How possibly can anything which is not a religion be a State-religion?!

A reasoned and logical perception of what the Taliban represent should have witnessed a flash of atheism envelope our globe. That it failed is not a reflection upon the value to humankind of those concepts but upon the inability of humankind to cast aside the cerebral pathology of fear of the unknown and the bowell-evacuating dread of taking responsibility for themselves.

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)

In the Taliban we encounter little boys playing at being real men in pathological fear of the other half of humankind....the cognate, the distaff. It is essential to their peace of mind that their profane natures be made the responsibility of the female. They use a scapegoat to hide their inadequacies, a scapegoat to rape, to witness, to inheritance, to uncleanness. The scapegoat upon whom the iniquities of little boys playing at being men can be heaped and expiated. It has become a given in even modern christian societies that little boys "hate" little girls and shun their presence. It has been the medium of humour and derision in many forms.

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

Is left wing religion a positive influence on the world?

https://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=21593&page=0#google_vignette

ttbn, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 9:41:51 AM writes: "In 2017, only 9% of people in the world claimed to be atheist; 25% said they were not religious but 62% said that they were religious."

I'm sure you won't think me presumptuous if I ask for a checkable source for your figures. In fact this sentence of yours reads like you might be expecting an enquiry from a scurrilous old skeptic like me.

Where it's been allowed to fester and stink up the place religion has brought a lot of tragedy to humankind. Were I to add the word "querrulous" to my self-description, I might resort to adding a similar ad hominen flavour to my observations that I detect in your post. But it's best avoided if at all possible. The religionist is undoubtedly and inevitably pretty vulnerable in this sort of exchanges.

Hello Pogi, Thank you for proving my point that left wing religion is the most evil force in world history.

imacentristmoderate, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 5:43:04 AM :
It requires very little effort really. Theists do most of the work for you. A spoonful of martyrdom does wonders for their self-respect.