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** Practically, it's often the same:
{{quote|'''L. Gumilev''': The Romans didn't notice the Republic was replaced with the Empire for three hundred years, and only when Diocletian changed the court etiquette found out they have a monarchy. }}
* Many supposedly non-religious (or even better, "rational") movements descended from Puritanism (think [[Animal Wrongs Group|PETA]], in this quote's case) usually inherit most doctrines of their parents, including Predestination. Then they try to replace the original underlying theology with quick patches, which tend to result in something [http: //www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/05/ol3-jacobite-history-of-world/] like this:
{{quote|There is a clip of Ingrid Newkirk in which she makes the following proposition: animal rights is a social-justice movement. All social-justice movements in the past have been successful. Therefore, the animal-rights movement will inevitably succeed.
This is pure Whig history. It postulates a mysterious force that animates the course of history, and operates inevitably in the progressive direction. Note the circular reasoning: social justice succeeds because social justice is good. How do we know that social justice is good? Because it succeeds, and good tends to triumph over evil. How do we know that good tends to triumph over evil? Well, just look at the record of social-justice movements.}}
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