Yeah, Vox is losing credibility.  This explanation sounds very forced in the face of how communism coöpted the tools of worship to retrain them on the secular state and to some degree the cult of personality.<p>So, it&#x27;s like they, vox, want to make this explanation work, because it&#x27;s plausible.  I imagine if they put some effort into it, could find another half dozen plausible explanations.