The more people both pro- and anti-China try to prove that China is sekretly a religious society, the more they show they're themselves atheists to the marrow of their bones and have no notion of religion Mircea Eliade would throw a fit

it is a bit clever though, if you haven't read any commentary of peak woke era, that is. "Heh heh, new atheists, your cultivation is wanting… you've traded a transcendental religion for a civic one, but it still has a morality and a teleology and…" shut up man we get it