No. The state became the religion.
It has never been done on a mass level in our recorded history.

All religion is pejorative.
That being said I too have religious leanings, I subscribe to the Bnai Noach position. But maybe someday I will grow out of it.
Religions are like training wheels, or crutches which help you out until you can make your own way.
I see that they serve a function, but people tend to overuse them and become dependant on them psychologically.
You can believe in God and not believe in religions. It is no contradiction.

Religious / political differences have caused more bloodshed and human suffering than any other thing in the history of the world. All the good they have done is not going to make up for that. Ever.
How long will the simple despise wisdom????