When you think about it, it's very much like "global warming" and "climate change."
The Left often seems to use this strategy, particularly on the big things.
Create this abstract entity that's somehow "bigger than" — somehow "above" — the reality you are unable to explain away with slogans and propaganda.
The "weather" is something you can see outside your window, something you can test and encounter by simply walking outside. That's no good, because the "weather" sometimes is hot, and sometimes cold, and most of the time just the same old thing.
Therefore, let's create this abstract thing called "the climate," which behaves in ways that only we (on the Left) can define, measure, and evaluate. When the weather gets "hot," we can say "this proves that we're in the grip of global warming, and this warming effect is caused by capitalism." When the weather gets "cold," we can say "do not be deceived, just because it's cold, that doesn't mean global warming is not happening, in fact, it's cold because of global warming."
Similarly, the create this abstract entity called "the people," or "working people." You are not one of the "working people," even though you have a job, have expenses, and pay taxes. No, "working people" are somewhere else, and they have a claim on the wealth you produce and create because you stole it from them.
Those are religious concepts and strategies just being twisted and applied to the left’s humanistic agenda.
The left wants to destroy religion, but it still recognizes the power that religion has to motivate people, and it wants to wield that itself. So it adopts some of the techniques and uses them for its own purposes.