Because it was the first totalitarian system from which all subsequent ones were spawned. Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Mixed Economy, Welfarism, Compte Altruism, are all the projeny of religion without which they would have been stillborn. Minus the dynamic and imprimatur of the religious altruist imperative, the sacrifice of Self to others, the alter, the authoritarian absolute state commanding total acquiescence would never have gained any traction.
The rein of terror of Dark Ages mysticism prefigured and provenanced all the 20th century totalitarian horrors and its altruist ethos remains potent and animates politics to this day.
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