day no. 17,135: the coexist cult and high priestcraft

“While secularism claims not to be ‘a’ religion, they do claim to be the arbiter of all religions—the faith of faiths, the religion of religions, the king of ki . . . better not go that far yet. Let’s give it a few more months.” — Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom

When the Coexist Cult claims to be above religion, they mean it, literally. They are not too good for religion, but all religion is, in their opinion, beneath them. They are the high priests of religion. By insisting that every major world religion has more in common that they do in distinction, it assumes jurisdiction over each one of them. It patronizes people by saying that they are limited in scope because of their subscription to a particular religion. It states that it alone can see every religion clearly because it is not caught up in the fog of any one in particular.