Foolstroupe wrote:
"secular ideologies" are indistinguishable, especially in their social effects, from "religions".

I agree about the social effects, but that's the only real similarity I can think of. Unlike secular ideologies, religions believe, in the absence of any evidence, in the existence of a sentient supernatural being that concerns itself with the actions of human beings and that is in some way responsible for the universe and everything in it. This all too often brings them to the desire they have to affect society from a standpoint that doesn't stand up to any logical analysis, and which fills them with a sense of right. Those with secular ideologies are also often filled with a sense of right, but at least they usually have better reasons, or at least reasons that are understandable by the rest of us, even if we disagree with them.

John Peekstok