“Cold War Christianity” was probably the best known in the West result of this phenomenon, and it’s still fucking up multiple countries. There’s sort of this narrative in a lot of churches of “the Holy Cold War” and the Cold War as essentially a modern Crusade. It’s kind of funny when you take a step back, but if you were raised Catholic, you know exactly what I’m trying to say and the deep “mundane horror” I’m getting at. It’s a hell of an interesting “if you know, you know, and if you haven’t lived in and seen it, you’d probably think I’m completely insane”. I could absolutely write fiction set in a highly reactionary Catholic school, drawing from the horror I perceived attending one, and have people who’ve never attended one call it either funny or a very strange take on horror as a genre, while people who have just nod and say “yep, that author’s one of us”.