Janet Albrechtsen, “New Religion, Old Hypocrisies,” makes the point that I have made previously in various articles, that the Leftist ideology has become something more, becoming a new religion. This religion differs from theism of the past, having no transcendental god, but instead places the global elites as the new gods. That is why those of the World Economic Forum are so devoted to the idea of transhumanism, since that position involves humans transcending normal human death as they become cyborgs, having artificial bodies, just like in the sci fi literature they all must have grown up on.
The religious aspect is also clearly seen in climate change hysterics, where there are most of the secular equivalents of Christianity. There is a garden of Eden, the world before Europeans developed the world. There are the equivalents of Satan, white people, and the path to redemption, given by Critical Race Theory. Those who dissent are heretics, punished by the woke from cancellation, to possible death by antifa thugs. And there is paradise given by the attainment of a multi-racial communist New World Order. I would go further than calling this a religion, and see it as more of a cult, but one which has a death grip upon the West. There is a desperate need for de-programming, as with all victims rescued from cults.