> But what I don't get are these exhortations to imitate religion, or
> follow its example, or be intimidated by its pervasiveness, or
> whatever, it's not really clear. I don't see how religion is any kind
> of transferrable model - it operates in a different realm from
> politics. Eternal salvation vs. a higher minimum wage? Not much of a
> contest. Of course, the relgious can, and do, campaign for a higher
> minimum wage and no secular person doing so would ever scorn the
> alliance. But I don't get what left politics has to learn from
> religion, doctrinally or organizationally.
Consider Bitch's observation that a lot of the megachurches provide a lot of the day-to-day social services that unions, coops and gummit use to provide. Right now it looks like eternal salvation and daycare vs. a higher minimum wage and ...?
-- Andy