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“The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law regions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These creeds do not like to be called religions, and refer to themselves as ideologies. But this is just a semantic exercise. If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.” ”
–Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” Harari, Yuval Noah, 2015. “New York Times Bestseller.
Harari makes a good point, although these modern “natural-law religions” are quite different than what we propose here at ISM.co. How do you suppose we differentiate between our own notion of a universal religion (see our Humanifesto) and these more political religions?