What is Society For?
There are two discernable views currently on display as to what society is for.
The first is that society exists to help and protect all its members. The view is that we come together for mutual assistance, security, and to honor the humanity in even those who can't make it on their own. A society is successful to the degree that it protects its people and offers them the chance to thrive.
The purpose of order in such a society is to strike a balance between protecting and facilitating the individual. It requires limitations on what power can and can't do, and difficult compromises that must be crafted by the participation of the society as a whole.
The other view is that society exists to allow the wealthy and powerful to do as they will, to whomever they will. All of life is a ruthless, unending competition, and if you lose, for whatever reason, you deserve nothing but contempt. Power is an end in itself, and has no obligation to the society as a whole.
To these, the purpose of order is to protect the few from the needs of the many. The right to property, no matter how many are harmed in the hoarding of it, is absolute. Any protest will be met with force, since the many should willingly submit and serve the wealthy.
To the authoritarian, society is only united by a hierarchy of privilege and punishment. All have their place in a chain of exploitation and abuse. While they may claim that this is "meritocracy," that is a lie. Most of those who inhabit the highest positions were either born to their place, or exploited everyone they passed on the way.
To them, everyone has not just the "privilege," but a duty to obey those above them, and suppress those below them. "Kiss up and kick down." Those above have no duty to those below. None.
The purpose of religion in such a society is to convince those who are at the top of the hierarchy that their privileges are divinely ordained, and to persuade those who suffer that their oppression is the will of that same divinity. Accepting the boot on your neck is accepting the divine order.
You must choose which social philosophy you would prefer to live by. You make those choices with your actions every day, with every word. When you give legitimacy to oppression by acquiescence, and give them your obedience and loyalty, you are building the walls of your own stockyards and slaughterhouses. When you lift up the fallen, when you band together for mutual help you are building the kinder, more just world that you wish to live in.
Resist.