This was one of the main benefits of pervasive Christianity in western countries. Hive-minders reigned in under the Christian ideology by priests are a lot less socially damaging that those left alone to rot each other's brains with leftism.
Not everybody can calmly and rationally behave like an upstanding human being, instead of a dumb ape, so sometimes it takes a priest convincing them "behave with basic decency or you'll be burned in hell for eternity".
Not everybody can calmly and rationally behave like an upstanding human being, instead of a dumb ape, so sometimes it takes a priest convincing them "behave with basic decency or you'll be burned in hell for eternity".