I think if people had a decent level of empathy, knew how to work as a collective and had a defined ethnic identity they would be able to see the harm that is being done to the nation itself and act in order to resist the system. I think this is the main reason why ethnic and religious groups have been attacked for so long and people have continued to degenerate from an ethical point of view.
I don't think religion has to be the straw man ideology that is made to escape the emptiness of reality. I think religion can truly reflect the deepest philosophical truths of the world and give wisdom to people on how to deal with their issues, even if it has been used in for the worst in the past.
It makes me wonder how different things would be if the traditional religious systems hadn't been destroyed by the masonic revolutions. One of the claims of groups like the Jews back then, was that some kind of god, the only god taught them the absolute truths about ethics and how people should live in a virtuous fashion. While I'm not sure if that is true or not, from an agnostic point of view the Jews could have been right about their claims or maybe they are wrong, but there's nothing wrong with questioning things instead of just following the popular values. People's minds have been damaged to a great extend, to the point of beliving in ideals they don't quite understand themselves.
I see the atheist approach as kind of dishonest for this reason. To a lot of people, there is either an all-loving god or the void of reality. I don't know how accurate the old traditionalist patriarchs were when it comes to their ethics, but they were absolutely correct when it comes to pointing out things like the danger that the Vatican represented and now it has a huge amount of power over the Intelligence groups. A lot of people areignorant of their own history to the point of having no idea how relevant this is and the responsibility they have with their ancestors.
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