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Scented Nectar wrote:
>>>If veganism is not secular why did you select a passage that stated
>>>in the first line "Veganism as a secular movement .."?

>>
>>Don't turn to an ellipse when the rest of the sentence is operative:
>>*IS A MODERN IDEA*. It was not originally secular, and even though it's
>>undergone a secularization, it remains at its core fundamentally
>>religious.

>
> If it's a modern idea, why don't you just go with
> the flow and live in current times? Regardless
> of how the word started, and what you think it
> implies, there is this very real second definition.


No, there isn't, and it's still very much a religion.

> Just accept that to those of us who don't think
> it's a religion, it isn't one.


Veganism is a religion and you're a true believer, part of the vegan
amen corner, a bonafide vegan zealot.