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''See also:'' [[Atheism and politics]] and [[Secular left]] and [[Decline of the secular left]]

''See also:'' [[Atheism and politics]] and [[Secular left]] and [[Decline of the secular left]]

[[File:John C Wright.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|John C. Wright]]

[[File:John C Wright.jpg|thumbnail|right|175px|John C. Wright]]

The [[Ex-atheist|ex-atheists]], [[science fiction]] author and political commentator John C. Wright wrote about American [[Secular left|secular leftists]]:

The [[Ex-atheist|ex-atheists]], [[science fiction]] author and political commentator John C. Wright wrote about American [[Secular left|secular leftists]]:

{{Cquote|They were triumphant because they were and are a religion, not a political movement. In a religion, dogma is accepted on faith, by bowing to the authority of the prophets or the Church who speak God’s word. To question the faith is an act of immorality, of disloyalty, of subversion. Hence the Progressive has no need and no ability to defend his dogma: he merely condemns the questioner as a heretic, a man with bad motives...

{{Cquote|They were triumphant because they were and are a religion, not a political movement. In a religion, dogma is accepted on faith, by bowing to the authority of the prophets or the Church who speak God’s word. To question the faith is an act of immorality, of disloyalty, of subversion. Hence the Progressive has no need and no ability to defend his dogma: he merely condemns the questioner as a heretic, a man with bad motives...