even in the courts choate. the success of this kind of endeavor will depend. it is, in fact, not only functioning like a religion but actually is a religion. the establishment of the federal government had to violate the first amendment. that is what worshiping the state does. a much longer argumentum we could have today, so on providing a quick overview. so we can ask that question, is secularism, liberal secularism a kind of religion? that is a strong point, but it is not one that i am the first one to make. if you look at the work among others and most famously error clubland, the 19th century and 20th-century political religions like communism, nazism, we find that one of the most interesting effects of secularization in the west is that the secular state very soon became an object of worship. here i love to bring in a quote by g. k. chesterton. once abolished god and the government becomes the god. people do not believe in something beyond the world. there will worship the world. above all there will worship the strongest thing in the world. now, the stro