I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.