There is always a state religion, always has been, always will be. Universities are seminaries of the state religion to train priests of the state religion, always have been, always will be.
No man rules alone. You need a tribe, or a synthetic tribe. For a large state a natural tribe is inherently too small. A faith is a synthetic tribe. An army needs a faith, and a state needs a faith.
Hence your mandatory participation in DEI religious gatherings and coerced prayers.
We don’t need everyone trained in priesting, need an enforceable apprenticeship system. Most people, and especially most scientists and engineers, should not attend university in their youth. The University, by its nature, is a bad place for science and technology, though to prevent heresy, successful and influential scientists and engineers should be pulled in and given high status well paid academic sinecures, sinecures which seldom require their physical presence at the university. (We will be paying them in money, status and influence, as we paid Newton, to not preach heresy.)
Next stop, tanks in Harvard.
Before the War of Northern Aggression, each state of the union had its own official state religion, and the official headquarters and primary seminary of the official state religion of New England was Harvard.
After the war of Northern Aggression, the United States had one officially unofficial state religion, and its officially unofficial headquarters and primary seminary was Harvard.
Before the war of Northern Aggression, the official religion of most of the states was a Episcopalianism, a faith that lives in its adherents, as for example Tucker, but its hierarchy openly disbelieves and discourages anyone who shows up from believing. Today, the Episcopalian Church is a real estate business..
When we are in charge, the officially official religion of the United States will be something that we will call Episcopalian, and will have a live connection of faith and ever faithful laity with the Anglicanism of 1660 and the Episcopalianism of 1770, but little continuity of organisation and hierarchical personnel, and such continuity as it will have will be through GAFCON.
If your state religion is incoherent, as with Communism with Chinese characteristics, or widely disbelieved by its priests, as with Sadducee Judaism in Israel at the time of Christ, or Anglicanism from 1820 or so to the present, your state lacks what Putin calls spiritual security. You are subject to hostile entryism by organisations whose faith is more passionately and sincerely held, leading to hostile takeover from within or without. Anglicanism was overthrown by what we now call Woke, though back then it was called “Evangelical”, and before that and after that many different names. They keep manufacturing new names as the old names start to stink. In the US at the time of the war of Northern Aggression, Transcedentalist. The name is ever changing, the ostensible beliefs keep changing, but there is complete continuity of personnel and organisation, which personnel and organisation in the US derives from the priests that Charles the Second purged from the Church of England in 1660 for heresy, some of whom went over to America to found Harvard.
Putin built the great Cathedral to protect Russia against such enemy hostile entryists. White men are building Cathedrals again. When we are in charge we will do the same, to celebrate God, the faith, our forbears, and to protect the state against its enemies.