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Ideology & religion

For thousands of years, intellectuals, leaders and philosophers have tried to change the world and the ways of the people. But the irony is, people who started following them attracted by their ideologies, later started worshipping them. This is how an ideology slowly metamorphoses into religion, which ultimately defeats its very purpose. And with the new-found rituals, the parent ideology and the person who was its advocate slowly evaporate, leaving behind the residual meaningless or symbolic rituals and practices and persons.