http://iainews.iai.tv/articles/new-gods-auid-495
EXCERPT: Liberal democracy is a salvational ideology like any religion. What happens now our faith is beginning to crumble? [...] “To prevent the destruction of human democracy we are willing to destroy ourselves and the world,” says [anthropologist Scott] Atran. “All of the ideologies that have been successful since the French Revolution, that have carried people, have been salvational, secularised religious ideologies. That is, each contains the idea that we can save humanity and we have the right message.” These ideologies of salvation will go to extraordinary lengths to protect and justify themselves....
EXCERPT: Liberal democracy is a salvational ideology like any religion. What happens now our faith is beginning to crumble? [...] “To prevent the destruction of human democracy we are willing to destroy ourselves and the world,” says [anthropologist Scott] Atran. “All of the ideologies that have been successful since the French Revolution, that have carried people, have been salvational, secularised religious ideologies. That is, each contains the idea that we can save humanity and we have the right message.” These ideologies of salvation will go to extraordinary lengths to protect and justify themselves....