Nietzsche instructed, As long as the State, or rather the government, regards itself as the guardian of the minor masses, and [on] their behalf considers the question whether religion shall be maintained or abolished, it will most probably always decide in favor of the maintenance of religion…. [For] when the necessary or accidental shortcomings of government … become apparent to the intelligent, and fill them with the sentiment of hostility, the unintelligent will fancy they see the fingers of God, and patiently submit to the commands from above.
