How Brexit Will Be Reversed: A Guide to the Inevitable
Chapter 4: Brexitism as a religion and how the church was established
While within Eurosceptic circles in Britain there has always been a fervent belief in the idea that the country would be better off either as far outside of the EU’s institutions as possible or just not part of any of them altogether, it wasn’t religious in texture until sometime beginning in 2017. Since then, and particularly following our actual departure from the EU, Brexitism has only become more religious in nature, with rites, saints, sins, dogma and the belief in a better world that can’t be seen or even practically anticipated but that the adherents believe with all their souls exists. An ironic thing about this being, the whole reason Cameron called the referendum was to dampen the zeal of the Eurosceptics, when it was the act of leaving the EU that caused Brexitism to push beyond a mere ideology into a religious faith.
I would like here to look at the history of Brexitism as a religion, what it actually adds up to as a theological belief system and finally, what its existence means for what we really care about, ie, reversing Brexit.
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