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/^t/In addition to the above, let us not forget about the form spiritual beliefs might or do assume. Traditional religions are on their way out. Decline of Christianity is easy to discern. But what becomes of interest now, is the appearance of new religions (often ostensibly secular in form) which have nonethess some of the attributes of the traditional systems. The religion of human rights and tolerance, for instance, is gaining more and more ground in the Euro-American culture. Among its tenets are: fighting any forms of intolerance, human inability to differentiate between good and bad (all is relative), inexistence of truth in the world and art (sub-doctrines of postmodernism, deconstruction, etc.), democracy being an indisputable political ideal, and many others. Similar cults may be detected and described in any totalitarian society from which traditional religion has been ousted.