What is behind Theocratic Irredentism in the 21st century?

With the catastrophic failure of Marxism to deliver on any front in the last century only the hardliners could any longer defend it and it died on the vine except for a few pockets of hold outs and their number has dwindled still further. The intellectuals embraced post modernism and there had been an anti reason philosophical movement even in the midst of the Enlightenment of which post modernism was its ultimate expression.

 Religion has begun to seem like the best vehicle and ground from which to launch a collectivist assault on freedom and liberty now Marxism can no longer serve that purpose. Church leaders have enjoyed a renaissance if such a word can be used in this context and it is from the pulpit that they launch their anti capitalist tirades and broadsides.

It has come full circle. First religion ruled the masses. Communism and socialism nudged the mystics out of the limelight and with the death of collectivist utopias look who's come back to take up the cudgels of altruism and collectivism!Enter stage Left Welby and co

It is religious belief that is enjoying a revival and in the words of Neil Mcgregor it best exemplifies the belief in the we, the collective,the group. Do not all the 'great' world religions assert group rights over the individual, decry interest in the self and urge sacrifice to the 'other' ie anyone but oneself ? The many not the few. We are all one.