Any philosophy taken to heart becomes a religion for that person.
Everything else, let it amuse you.
This was my response after reading Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra & Simulation, the book made popular by the 1999 film, The Matrix.
This is a contemporary understanding of humanity and social modes. It is shaped by common traditions and rights of passage from societies believed to have never interacted prior to modern times.
A new twist on the value and need of dogmatic religion: a double irony to the existence and origin of church establishments.
Mutual, contradictory realities are also introduced.