He produced some of Fassbinder's early films and acted in later ones, and worked with Herzog as well. It seems that the films critique that belief system, but they also partake of it. In each of the films, you can see a combination of faiths, beliefs and interests. But each faith is revealed as based on illusion. And then it spreads thin and disappears.
All messiahs are generally just ordinary spies.
There may be luckier nations on the Earth which have regular messiahs. I don't know any, but I haven't landed on the moon yet. All the characters believe they will be happy if only they have an apartment. I see this situation as very tragic, but with more and more of a cosmic dimension. At first, I saw it only within the family, but I slowly discovered that it affects almost everything.