I am struggling already some time with the question if right wing regimes in the world use religion as a help to support their grip on the population...

I used that question as I supposed for instance a link of the far right with the Belgian and perhaps also the French Catholic "traditionists"
There was a discussion on the French Passion Histoire about it. But more focused on France without a broader vision on the world?
http://geopolitique.passion-histoire.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1218&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=20

And I thought to have brought "religion" into the more "global" discussion of right wing countries in the world in:
https://reshistorica.forumotion.com/t1294-are-we-back-to-the-thirties
and also this:
https://www.marianne.net/societe/les-catholiques-sont-ils-devenus-identitaires
But can one trust the tendency of a daily press article, as the tendency can change as for instance with a new owner: A Czech billionaire?

But doing some research the last days I am completely at a loss...as on the first sight all those right radicals are using only religion as a support for their identitary in reality lay goals?
I don't hear anymore the ultra right using and referring to Catholic traditionalists in Belgium...
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/02/20/kamerlid-dries-van-langenhove-op-betoging-in-parijs/
Support for the "génération identitaire" in Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Identitaires
And Marine Le Pen don't refer anymore to Joan of Arc as her father. She goes directly to the nationalist autochtone supporters...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen...

So I have more and more the impression that religion as from the American Bible belt has not that influence as some presume? Putin's Orthodox Church? As long as they can use it?
Perhaps is "nationalism "of "one" country more important than every religious tendency? As now with the troubles in Armenia? Even in Iran ?

And just starting to read this article I became aware that my question is more complex than first tought? Or perhaps too "general"?
https://iep.utm.edu/rel-poli/