"For that matter, even religious worship would have been permitted if the proles had shown any sign of needing or wanting it." https://books.google.com/books?id=uyr8BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT59 A thought: Maybe somewhere in Oceania, religion is tolerated among the proles, and Baptists or Catholics pray for Big Brother and victory over Eurasia/Eastasia. Sure, in Airstrip One, religion had already declined enough by the time of the Revolution that this was not necessary. But maybe in parts of what had been the American South or Latin America? Note that in Orwell's previous anti-Stalinist satire, Animal Farm, the pigs eventually came to tolerate the preaching of the raven Moses about Sugarcandy Mountain...