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Further, if contemporary religious societies want to reap a modern harvest from religion, they have to transform their conception of religion and acquire anotherunderstanding(an ideological one) concerning God, ma'ad (resurrection) and inspiration.
Secularization of religion or turning a holy matter into a profane one (which in his opinion is equivalent to modernization of religious knowledge) is a necessity, which is proven desirable by developmental thinking.
If Mr. Saleh-Pour really wants to say that my sole worry centers round "erosion of holy capital", and that "worry about religion" has been the driving force for the prevention of ideologization of religion, then there will be no room for the claim that modernization of religious knowledge is the same thing as the "profanization of a holy matter, to put it in technical terms".
If I wanted to explain the difference between my viewpoint and that of Mr. Saleh-Pour briefly, I would say that he is talking about religious ideology, whereas I am talking about ideological religion.
Religious ideology, which is a hypocritical form of religion and an illustration of the profanization of a holy matter, is indifferent to what is right and the nullification of religion.
In those societies too, ideologization ofreligion or religious knowledge (mainly in its legal sense) was possible and gnostics and mystics were ardent critics of this inauspicious change.
Religion can be regarded as separate from politics only in one case, that is, when the society is non-religious.