David Jesudason's review indicates it is an anti-Christian anti-populist story.
Not my words, his. Just saying.
That was my take on it also - anti-Christian, anti-moral, anti-Freedom - written with the intent of further undermining the basic tenants of modern civilization (family, community, trust, respect, self-reliance, personal responsibility, etc), intended to confuse people minds at the subliminal level and thus facilitate the chaos needed to bring in the darkness of socialism - by city, by country, and eventually to the entire globe.
... i.e. a work of leftist propaganda.