They are not "universal traditions". Both are pure conditioning. It's as if the elite say, "Who, here, want to be slaves?" and we all rush forward screaming, "Me, me,me". And they say, "Okay then, your shackles are over there, help yourself".
"Faith" is for the simple minded. On any other subject you would demand proof. Here, the very thing itself, "Faith" is based on the very absence of proof. And yet we rush to grasp the idea. We shout with pride "I believe without a shred of proof". As if such nonsense were, indeed, a virtue.
And "Patriotism" is more bunkum. We take pride in "belonging" to a country. We talk about "Our country". A country where, most likely, you don't own one blade of grass. And yet we fight and die for that country. And we kill those from a different country.
All on behalf of the elite, the bosses.
No socialist, worth a damn, entertains such nonsense.
It's not everday you will find Karl Marx and Krishnamurti in the same camp:
You have nothing to lose but your chains (Marx).
Rid yourself of your conditioning. (Jiddu Krishnamurti).