Wonderful entertaining lecture with much food for thought in the present day. The 17th century sects who combined religion and free sex have parallels with any number of modern cults such as the Mariavites in Poland. I am surprised that relatively few people have viewed it and commented on it.
The problem with that quote is that it doesn't remind us that the religions that have done the most evil and killed the most people (Stalinism, Hitlerism and Maoism) aren't thought of as religions.
You forgot market fundamentalism and the religion of anarcho- capitalism - aka libertarianism in the US and the followers of Ayn Rand. BTW should the American religious right be thought of as religious. Seem like political extremists to me. Those Trump rallies seem very religious to me, as well as disturbingly reminiscent of those rallies the Germans used to hold back in the 30's.
