To judge by the descriptions that reach us from the ancients, they felt somewhat like this during their “church services.”
But they served their nonsensical, unknown god; we serve our rational god, whom we know most thoroughly.
Their god gave them nothing but eternal, torturing seeking; our god gives us absolute truth – that is, he has rid us of any kind of doubt.
Their god did not invent anything cleverer than sacrificing oneself, nobody knows what for; we bring to our god, the United State, a quiet, rational, carefully thought-out sacrifice.
– We, from Zamyatin Yevgeny