Radio host Rush Limbaugh drew a comparison between religion and his usual favorite target, “gutless” liberalism: “When you examine liberalism intellectually, it cannot survive. So it has religious character.” He went on to define the “religious character” of liberalism as: "[I]f you don't question it, you just rely on it with faith, and the whole point of it is to make you feel better about yourself as you accomplish nothing." Citing the unlikelihood of Christians and Jews to “change their minds” and convert, he concluded: “It's not quite as bad with the left, but it is -- they're more like a religion than they are an actual thoughtful intellectual reality.”

From the September 28 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: [T]hey're [the left] almost committed to their beliefs as if it's a religion as opposed to an ideology.

I think we err when we call liberalism a -- an ideology. Nobody thinks about being liberal. Liberalism's one of the most easy choices you can make. It's a gutless choice. You don't have to think about it at all.

Liberalism is challenged -- liberalism falls apart when you actually do think about it. When you examine liberalism intellectually, it cannot survive. So it has religious character. If you question it without question -- if you don't question it, you just rely on it with faith, and the whole point of it is to make you feel better about yourself as you accomplish nothing. That's one of the primary elixirs that -- that -- that liberalism contains.

So I -- whether they ever get it or not. Do you expect Christians to change their mind some day? Do you expect Jews to change their minds some day? I don't think so. It doesn't really happen. You have converts now and then.

It's not quite as bad with the left, but it is -- they're more like a religion than they are an actual thoughtful intellectual reality.