Deeper even than religious bonds is the biological origin of social behavior

Conservative's believe that the common bonds of religion hold different ethnic groups together in harmony, so when religion falls the multi-culture falls. That is not quite sophistry and is true but it is an unfinished evaluation. Deeper even than religious bonds is the biological origin of social behavior which includes religion, with kin and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful survival and reproduction.

For that natural reason religions and cultures end up separating along ethnic lines, because shared genetic traits create more homogeneous cultures. People create cultures more than cultures create people. Religions are driven by the same biological origin of social behavior, working along with the various environments and nurturings of life.

This is why the call to revive ethnostates, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, needs to be included along with religion in reviving long lasting societies and cultures. This also, more controversially, means that religion needs to get in harmony with the biological origin of social behavior, with kin and ethnic selection understood as the primary unit of successful survival and reproduction.

Conservatism already accepts most of the definition of human nature as described by the science of sociobiology as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

This religious transformation, like evolution itself, can retain and conserve the best of past religions---the Inward Path to the God within of traditional religions is transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood. This transformation becomes easier to absorb when ascending levels of Godhood are seen as arrived at by way of material, not spiritual, evolution, as described in theological materialism.