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

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

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

The [[Ex-atheist|ex-atheist]], [[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 [[Progressivism|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|...all the [[Progressivism|Progressives]] do is take their religion, Social Justice [[Marxism]], or whatever name it is going by these days, and PRETEND it is not a religion at all, and they press their [[worldview]] as if it were the default worldview promoted by the Constitution and by the consensus of academia, and declare the burden of proof to be on the conservative to proof otherwise. And when the conservative does prove otherwise, the Progressive decrees from the bench that the proof is inadmissible, on the grounds that no religious arguments can be brought into the public sphere to argue against the Progressive religion. Because it is said to be not a religion, you see.

 

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...

The Progressive is fighting a holy war. A holy war concerns not one policy or one thing, but everything. It is a war to impose a worldview on the world. It cannot compromise.

The Progressive is fighting a holy war. A holy war concerns not one policy or one thing, but everything. It is a war to impose a worldview on the world. It cannot compromise.