To say a religion has obligatory force is to say it taps into political power. If a religion is only voluntary, it might have economic import but it has difficulty speaking to the matter of political authority. It cannot command.
The moment a religion takes on political power it ceases to be just a religion and it becomes the cultural understructure of the political/economic institutions of the polity.
Power alters the meaning of social relations.
Civil society under national authority exercises power naturally.
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