Criticism

Meaning is more often negative than positive, fleshing itself out as ideological parasitism. Few live for something, but instead live for the (oftentimes cynical) destruction of an idea.

Fanatical politics lives for criticism of the other side. The same with religion, which constantly attacks dissenters -- religiously, politically, sexually, etc. -- as a substitute for fulfilling the (unknown, unattended to, uncared for) will of God. The same even with counter-religious non-theistic movements, which have their being in murdering what they see as the irrationality of faith. To be human is to destroy.

The worst thing conceivable to the critical religious-minded is a world where everyone believes what they do. No one to condemn (while secretly thanking that they are condemnable, for reasons of power), nothing to disagree with, now what? And if everyone divorced themselves from the so-called silliness of faith and embraced a post-enlightenment enthusiasm for reason and science, well, it's off to a heavier focus on the disagreements within humanistic ideas.

The easy way out is to bitch and complain.