The problem is they reinvented gods in order to justify the world they want.
It doesn’t matter if we believe in Jesus, Poseidon, shoe unicorns, or celestial teapots. There’s an established conspiracy to change the culture through propaganda and reeducation. This week’s Behind the Bastards on How Christanity Got Eaten By Capitalism notes James W. Fifield Jr. as a keystone figure in the late 1930s.
So if we had an established religion of shoe unicorns they would be about property rights and freedom to be exploited by capitalists in the 21st century, even if they were pacifistic communist unicorns in the 19th century.
A lot of money was spent by industrialists in order to turn the US into a theocratic oligarchy. Jesus is just the mascot.