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i think anything, be it global warming, political ideology, which is better between a mac or pc, can take on aspects of a religion. you can find zealous followers to any movement, it doesn't have to be religious. but we view that following an ideal, especially passionately, is religious-like. but that doesn't make it religion. people can recycle 'religiously', which can be seen as dogmatic, it's still not a real religious dogma.
i think calling non-religious things religious (evolution and global warming being the two biggest examples) tells us more about the world view of those calling it a religion than it does about the actual topic at hand.
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