With the destruction that those forces have always inflicted on mankind, such an attitude is understandable, but invalid. Government and religious forces, while always exerting destructive influences, need not be the controlling forces on any individual's present or future. By using the mind and acting on reason, a person can usually avoid or minimize the effect of government and religion on his or her personal self in order to live independently, productively, and happily. The government can confiscate or plunder a person's property. The government can jail or kill innocent people.
Religion can destroy a person's mind or happiness.
But none of those potential or real forces basically control human lives or destiny. For conscious beings in such advanced civilizations would have achieved biological immortality long ago. The above hypotheses are statistically valid and almost certainly factual. From statistical considerations, many millions or billions of Earth-like planets with intelligent civilizations do exist throughout the universe. Many of those civilizations existing far in advance of our own are certainly capable of contacting Earth.