> Religion is just the spiritual component of this meta narrative.
What do you mean by "the spiritual component", & why is it important? (I wasn't raised religious, so don't have experience of what psychological benefits religion brings.)
> there is something about these components that fit well together when combined in certain ways, and not so well when combined in other ways.
This is, I think, contradicted by numerous political examples, including 'gray tribe' atheist libertarians & early-20th-century Christian utopian socialists or social gospel people. A historical explanation seems more likely: 20th-century Marxism was associated with atheism, so pro-capitalists & religious-conservatives allied to oppose it in the West, & when communism was clearly failing, many of its Western adherents left it for identitarian 'liberalism' but, having already given up strong religious devotion, remained supportive or at least tolerant of atheism & opposed to religious 'fundamentalism'.
> Religion is just the spiritual component of this meta narrative.
What do you mean by "the spiritual component", & why is it important? (I wasn't raised religious, so don't have experience of what psychological benefits religion brings.)
> there is something about these components that fit well together when combined in certain ways, and not so well when combined in other ways.
This is, I think, contradicted by numerous political examples, including 'gray tribe' atheist libertarians & early-20th-century Christian utopian socialists or social gospel people. A historical explanation seems more likely: 20th-century Marxism was associated with atheism, so pro-capitalists & religious-conservatives allied to oppose it in the West, & when communism was clearly failing, many of its Western adherents left it for identitarian 'liberalism' but, having already given up strong religious devotion, remained supportive or at least tolerant of atheism & opposed to religious 'fundamentalism'.