> I suspect there might not be love for this angle here, but there's something else that follows this format: God. Spirituality. Religion.

Yes, and that's because God, spirituality and religion make fuzzy truth claims and can be used to argue for and justify anything. God can be used as the excuse to start a genocide and the inspiration to stop it, spirituality can be the way for wounded people to work with their trauma and the vehicle for people without scruples to sell horoscopes or some shit, religion (the same religion) was used to justify and uphold slavery and to fight for its end.

They are containers for our politics, our lifestyle, for who we are and for who we hope to be.

The Agile manifesto is a series of statements in the form "we like X more than Y." It doesn't say anything. To make it mean anything you have to project onto it a framework of interpretation that exists independently of the "sacred text" itself.

So yeah, they are similar, and that's because Agile, sociologically, works like a religion.