The more you try to anchor yourself to something that is deeply untrue, the more insidiously corrosive your life becomes.
It's a toxic ideology in many different senses, and enough of the population has been brainwashed or terrorized into the mandated state religion to comply with any absurdity that it has de-facto controlling influence over all these things.
It's a humiliation ritual to break people's spirit through the exertion of soft power social control. Torture.