Ah, I now realize you were objecting to this: Religion usually has a built-in power structure that nothing else has been able to replicate. I wasn't sufficien

Ah, I now realize you were objecting to this: Religion usually has a built-in power structure that nothing else has been able to replicate. I wasn't sufficiently clear. I meant within the context of "things that have been used as a basis for communes", religion stands alone.