Religion and ideology help organize societies, and Christianity used to be a central focus of community life for the everyday peasant in the Middle Ages. Nation

Religion and ideology help organize societies, and Christianity used to be a central focus of community life for the everyday peasant in the Middle Ages. Nations, companies, and the markets obviously aren't a definite existence in our times, and in other places and times they have a very different existence than today. But today they are a central pillar in organizing our societies. Religion seems absurd because they don't mesh well in our societies anymore, but countries and enterprises, for example, may seem an absurd and harmful notion to people of another time and place.