text: Interesting quotation at the end of the article: "When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the riders believe that nothing can stand in their way..."  But that doesn't just apply to mainstream religions.  It applies to all "isms" such as liberalism, conservatism, fascism, socialism, etc..  All of them are comprised of subjective beliefs and value propositions.  None of them is based on objective, empirical math or scientifically verifiable principals.  All of them are what the French post-modernist philosopher Lyotard called "self-authenticating meta-narratives."  And he noted that all should be looked at with deep skepticism.  So, we can't just point to Christianity as one of those riders.  The secular, materialistic religion of socialism, as advocated by Bernie Sanders, amongst others, could also be one of those riders.