All philosophies and religions start off as a way to create order from chaos. To program the human computer into functioning as a orderly cohesive unit. And all philosophies and regions eventually turn into oppressive atiquated systems that try to hold back the new operating system that helps the human computer make sense of the new world/environment as it unfolds.

It doesn't matter what it is, who's running it, who's in control, "belief" itself is a biological and evolutionary mechanism.
Iike it or not, fair or not, might ALWAYS makes right. ALWAYS.