I view it as sort of a zombified religion. There's everything there. Institutionalized morality. The concepts of "sin" as an absolute evil even when at best onl

I view it as sort of a zombified religion. There's everything there. Institutionalized morality. The concepts of "sin" as an absolute evil even when at best only self-harm is involved. The idea of individual needs and freedoms being subservient to the needs and even desires of the collective. The idea that everyone should live and be bound by the same moral and ethical code. And, of course, the ideas that true independence, heterodoxy, and privacy are threats to the established social order (they often are) and should be reined in as tight as possible. A lot of these ideas are still rattling around in the socio-cultural baggage of the west, even after their mooring to organized religion has drifted away and become less relevant. Yet all of these things are problematic for the same reasons they've always been, but without the wires tying it directly to a bunch of stories about an omnipotent sky-being suddenly people have lost the ability to understand or gauge their level of threat to essential personal liberty.