People would be a lot less corrupt if there weren't gods controlling them, directly or indirectly. I stopped using the word God to represent all that is good, because everyone has a different concept of who God is, and they plug in their corruptions for his characteristics. Even worse, there are a variety of corrupt gods who control people. Nearly everyone is willingly controlled by some god.

This includes most atheists, because the ring leaders of atheism don't really believe a word of what they say about molecules in the brain producing thought and no spirit world existing. Their primary motive for denying everything spiritual is that they don't want to be accountable for their spirit world conspiracies. Their secondary motives is that they don't want to be held to moral standards, which go with the concept of God. They want to tailor their morality (they say ethics) on a whim.

An important side issue which this touches upon is that there are basically two groups with every cause. There are the instigators, who know what a fraud they are perpetrating; and there are the dupes who go along, not having a clue, but who should know better.

One of the main reasons why all of this instigating works is because people have not learned to be responsible for themselves. It's easier to let someone else do their thinking for them. And there are driving forces pushing them in that direction—like, never question the status quo, and always be part of the team.

Even go-along atheists idealize a group of gods who they worship—Einstein being the epitome. Idealizing is always how direction in life is shaped. But ideals differ in every mind. A person tends to assume everyone is like himself; and therefore, the gods are persons who have all of their best qualities and none of the worst. Unfortunately, bigotry, elitism and nihilism are subconsciously assumed to be virtues due to the positive reinforcement of power which shapes them. In other words, a god to a bigot is a rabid bigot. To fundamentalists, God is another demon who sacrifices the needy for the wealth of power mongers.

This is why poverty saves. The need to solve problems creates a relevance for the objective realities which sustain life and define morality. It removes peoples' lives from the frauds of the gods who monger power and puts objective reality in their place.