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What was the main purpose of Hong Xiuquan's founding of the "worship of God Society"?

Many peasant leaders in Chinese history often used religion and feudal superstitions to organize and launch peasant revolts, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was no exception. After the Opium War, Hong Xiuquan followed the trend of peasant revolution and founded the Society of the Worship of God. By combining Christian doctrine with traditional Chinese Confucianism and peasant egalitarianism, the Society of God-worshippers formed a peasant revolutionary ideology and creed with strong religious superstition, and used missionary work as a means of mobilizing the masses and staging anti-Qing uprisings. It should be admitted, worship of God in Hong Xiuquan organization, mobilize the masses to participate in the anti-feudal struggle played a very positive role, but, in the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom struggle practice, worship of God became a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom leaders to maintain their own privileged position of a tool, became Yang Xiuqing hold the King of Heaven's tool, and gradually evolved into a kind of cult. Li Dazhao said, "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom banned opium but adopted religion; they did not build the Republic of China but the Kingdom of Heaven. This is an important reason for their failure."