It is arguable that all the disarmers and appeasers of the 1930s achieved was to make it impossible to stand firm at Munich; which made war inevitable in which around 60 million people died.
So before it is possible to link up religion with the State, and still more before it is possible to begin to construct a religious view of Nature and the Universe, it is necessary to consider the relationship between religion and ordinary conduct in the secular world. This is something that Jesus not only did not do, he did not even attempt to do. I make no criticism of him; he set out to found the Kingdom of Heaven, and his “good news” was that this kingdom was at hand. He was not interested in training his followers to be good citizens. Confirmation of this is to be found in the refusal of his followers for centuries to live the lives of public-spirited citizens. Furthermore in all the centuries since then, the clergy have failed to sort out the relationship between religion and ordinary conduct in the secular world; for example, when Sunday Trading was first mooted, I do not remember hearing one word from the pulpit, or reading one word from the Church in the press, condemning the idea. Yet it has dramatically changed social life, many people would say for the worse. Such laziness would be almost unbelievable, except for the sad fact that, with two exceptions, on every church committee on which I have ever sat the clergyman in the chair has wangled to get his own way. Most of them have no conception that on committees what is necessary is to speak the truth, be moderate in one’s views and respect the views of others, and above all to be willing to compromise, unless some matter of overwhelming importance is in issue, and at stake. This is not the Kingdom of Heaven; but it is the beginning of a civilized secular society, which is better than nothing at all!
So forgetting about institutional religion, which is irrelevant to secular life; let us go back to the beginning, and consider the Creator, if He exists, the world of the Spirit as it affects individuals, and ordinary conduct in the secular world.