I love that quote, that's so accurate. Especially with how many funerary schools are primarily Buddhist in Japan along with the vast majority of their burials. It's actually uncommon for a mortician to prepare a body for a wake.

Well, it's supposed to be about conservative changes.

But instead it's exactly as you described.

You are describing Neoconservative and/or Trumptard "conservative" policies. In the political textbooks, Conservative does mean the ones who want to preserve traditional ways of doing things, conserving money by reducing wasteful spending, conserving our military forces by not engaging in wars of foreign intervention.

That type of textbook Conservative is a lot harder to find in government since 9/11 happened and turned America into the shit version that we have now.

I wouldn't be so confident that the removal of religion would be such a panacea for humanity. These social structures developed for a reason and things would likely appear to fill the vacuum. People already raise up companies and cults of personality in place of formal religion as it is. Even just being a republican party supporter has a certain degree of cult like devotion.

If your view of a conservative is a person of deep religious conviction, then sure, I guess.