Existence is Binary
Things either exist or they don't. This is called the Binary Circumstance.
All the irrational thinking in the world is the result of individuals willfully rejecting this fact, or incorrectly distinguishing that which exists from that which doesn't exist.
There is no dualism between existence and truth. That which is true exists and that which is false does not exist. Likewise, that which exists it true and that which does not exist is false.
Existence Before Consciousness
Consciousness implies existence. A consciousness must be conscious of something which exists. Also, for consciousness to exist, the state of being called existence must exist. If there "is" consciousness it exists. Existence comes before consciousness.
Existence does not need consciousness. When a consciousness dies, existence will still be there objectively, but no longer known to the conciousness that died. If existence ends, then all consciousness must end as well because nothing would exist including consciousness.
Even if all consciousnesses died there's no reason to believe that existence would end. Micro-organisms existed long before conscious beings like man existed. They will most likely exist if humans were to die off as a species.
A rock can exist without anyone being aware of it. But the reverse is not true. Existence must "be" before consciousness can "be" anything including being aware of existence.
The evolution of consciousness is existence becoming aware of itself.
Theism and Statism
Theism and statism have a lot in commmon. Both assign human characteristics to entities that are either nonexistent, irrational and/or inanimate. This process is called personification.
Expecting a government or state to make decisions assumes that the state has the ability to think. I does not. Thinking a government is capable of compassion assumes that governments have emotions. They do not.
The same problem exists with the idea of God, which humans inevitably model after their own psychological needs. If there is no evidence that God exists, there is certainly no evidence that a compassionate or thinking God exists.
Rational people cannot afford the intellectual decadence of engaging in the personification of fictional supernatural beings or states. Assigning human and super-human characteristics to Gods and states inevitably makes humans, who are capable of thinking and compassion, subservient to the personified, fictional entities. It destroys the value of reason and compassion, as well as many other human assets, by saying that humans characteristics have less value than something that isn't there.