The court does find a religious hatred motive in the actions of the defendants by way of them being feminists who consider men and women to be equal. Now gender equally is asserted, maintained by the Russian constitution where all people are proclaimed equal irrespective of their gender, race, nationality political affiliation and so on.

If you haven’t read about this, you should. Russian judge actually calls liberalism a religion!

Liberals care about purity, their sense of purity is just perverted towards different things.

*grin*

“Capitalist pig” isn’t a category of disgustingness on the left any more. Nor is Wall St. Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic. Those are the charged topics now. 2012 > 1968. So, really, OWS was not such a good choice. The heresies change, but at least the heretics stay the same.

On 2, I can’t offhand think of more than one or two people I know who are less attuned to purity or ingroup/outgroup than I am, so this explanation seems not to be right. In fact, back when I was much leftier, I was always befuddled by the left’s insane, lefter-than-thou sanctimony.

It’s conceivable that it’s all due to some selection bias, but essentially every experience I have had with crazed sanctimony has come from a lefty. The idea that I should weight some psychologist’s claims over the evidence of my senses because the shrinks get all puffy and babble about “science” is ridiculous.

On 3, I have no idea what you mean by “genuine religiosity.”

“And if you look at subatomic particles and think how awesome they are – well, they’re only awesome because we’re completely unable to deal with them. What Dawkins calls ‘awe’ is actually ignorance.”

I’m picking away at an essay on the relation of science to art and believe me both the studies and the vast majority of anecdotal observations from philosophers and other writers show that rationalistic thinking tends to kill awe and wonder. You can also read a very good account of this J.S. Mill’s autobiography.

I was really fascinated at the lack of purity/sanctity references, particularly of the “capitalist pig” type.

There were some signs evidencing solidarity with each other. Of all the three conservative moral foundations, liberals seem to understand loyalty/ingroup the best.