...are you saying that legitimates your circular (faith-based) question-begging, too? 🤔

My fellow drone-hating New Jerseyian...you're making absolute truth claims without having first proven your presupposition that 'there is no God.'

On the contrary, there is a God--that much is clear to us all from the existence, design, order, beauty, precision, rationality, and 'symphony' of the created world and all its interlocking and irreducibly complex systems-of-systems. It is clear from 'what we can't not know' about natural law and the dictates of conscience.

We don't need to rehash the billions of atheism-vs-Christian-Theism arguments that are already online in a million comment sections written by angsty middle schoolers.

Suffice it for me to respond with this: I won't speak for other religions, but for Christian Theism, it is not a "control structure" but "good news of great joy for all the peoples." Grace and redemption as a free gift are not a "control structure," but the ground-source of true hope, lasting joy, genuine love, perfect forgiveness, and everlasting endurance. And, I might add, the only legitimate ground for ethics and for questioning--even rebelling against--an overreaching State apparatus. If there is nothing higher than the State, then there are no grounds to resist it, either.