The Age of Religion Is Upon Us

You recently wrote an article called The Age of Religion is upon us. But your argument is that the religious impulse for meaning in people is being filled by other things. And I think you're starting to see now, particularly in pockets of the online sort of anti-establishment right, the belief in an overarching global conspiratorial forces taking over the world. There's a lot of that in Australia as well. We are opening ourselves up to a lot of cultishness on the left in terms of wokeness and this cultishnesson the right in terms of the things that I've just described. religion is a very powerful thing because it can be used for good but it can also be