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It strongly resembles a religion.

It has high priests who convey "infallible", divinely gained knowledge (CDC, Fauci, WHO, etc).

It has rituals that are claimed to protect one from harm (6' distancing, masks, double masks, "vaccines", lockdowns, etc).

It has liturgy with associated phrases to identify members of that religion ("trust the science", "wear a mask", "social distancing", "anti-vaxxers are Nazis", etc).

It has heretics (anyone who questions the church of covid, anyone who questions lockdowns, anyone who questions "vaccines").

It zealously seeks to forcibly convert members through forced compliance with its rituals ("vaccines", lockdowns, masks, etc).

It sounds like a religion to me.

It strongly resembles a religion. It has high priests who convey "infallible", divinely gained knowledge (CDC, Fauci, WHO, etc). It has rituals that are claimed to protect one from harm (6' distancing, masks, double masks, "vaccines", lockdowns, etc). It has liturgy with associated phrases to identify members of that religion ("trust the science", "wear a mask", "social distancing", "anti-vaxxers are Nazis", etc). It has heretics (anyone who questions the church of covid, anyone who questions lockdowns, anyone who questions "vaccines"). It zealously seeks to forcibly convert members through forced compliance with its rituals ("vaccines", lockdowns, masks, etc). It sounds like a religion to me.

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Scientism cult. This includes things like climate change doctrine and hominid races don't exist.

Scientism is the promotion of science as the best or only objective means by which society should determine normative and epistemological values. While the term was originally defined to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to the natural scientist", some religious scholars (and subsequently many others) adopted it as a pejorative with the meaning "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities).

They are literally a cult of scientism. Because they lack spiritual centers and a grasp of remedial science, they have created a religion of scientism in which anyone who disagrees is guilty of heresy. The high priests of science are always right and how dare you confront the clergy! You are dealing with the dogma of a religious cult. According to them, we are all heretics.