Article snippet: As a part of an exclusive and wide-ranging conversation with Breitbart News, Professor Gad Saad of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, explained why social justice politics is designed to invite a religious-like adherence. “…It is a form of quasi-religious belief. The commonality between social justice quasi-religion and actual religion is that they both start off with revealed truths,” Saad began. “And these revealed truths are the starting points of their belief system. And those beliefs cannot be attacked or questioned. That’s why they are in the realm of faith and not evidence.” Saad explained that a strict adherent to social justice politics will not be swayed by even the strongest of arguments. Why? Because social justice warriors refuse to allow intellectual criticism of their “revealed truths.” “Even scientific truths are ‘provisional.’ They are currently correct but tomorrow they might be superseded,” Saad said. “When it comes to social justice, it doesn’t operate that way. That’s why I call them all part of this cancerous, virus of the human mind; postmodernism, radical feminism, identity politics, cultural and moral relativism. They are revealed truths. You start off with a premise and there is no amount of evidence that I can offer you that can alter your thinking. That’s why, in that sense, they are quasi-religious.” Heterodox Academy founder Jonathan Haidt uses the term “ring of sacredness” to refer to a group or person’s set of ideas that the... Link to the full article to read more