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HAYuri Bezmenov, former KGB informant and defector on how the destruction of religion is an important step in demoralising and subverting a nation to achieve long-term ideological change.
He argued that religion was important not just for its theological aspects but for anchoring values, social norms, and meaning across generations in a nation.
Bezmenov outlined a staged process of demoralisation, where faith, tradition, and shared moral standards are mocked or stripped away, leaving individuals disconnected from their inherited identities. This, he said, was followed by destabilisation, as weakened social ties made institutions easier to attack, then a crisis, and finally "normalisation" under a new ideological system.
Whether one agrees with his conclusions or not, Bezmenov’s ideas views traditional religion not as superstition but as a stabilizer for civilisation. The erosion of this stabiliser will leave societies psychologically fractured and vulnerable to influence.
Has the decline of traditional religions in the west led to the weakening of the institutions that had sustained it and left it vulnerable to external influence? Or is this just the natural arc of a modern society shedding superstition?
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