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I heard that argument before. While I agree that those are "modern day religions" because they are a system of believes with their own dogmas (i.e. class domination or the spirit of nations), but I think communism or liberalism are way more rational that books written thousands of years ago that tell you what you can eat or not, who are your enemies or how to beat your wife. Of course there is also nice stuff in those books (love, friendship) but also terrible things and I don't know why we should cherrypick what we like depending on the moment that we live, it's absurd.The opposite happens when you take religion out of the equation actually.
Nazism and communism, 0 religion involved, no suffering at all because of those ideologies.
Dawkins and Hitchens believe that morality is logical and can exist without religion or spirituality, but they're wrong.