you are creating a false dichotomy, atheists are just as bad as religious people, both groups believe something that is unproveable religion has historically been used as a tool to control people just like science is now, covid is the perfect example, most people need a way to simplify the world because they cant stare in to the void and laugh at the absurdity of our existence in order to really understand it you need a little extra context, religion = religio = accepted truth vs occult = occulta = the unaccepted truth, though out history people can be divided in to two categories, those who know and those who dont, go and read the corpus hermeticum and see what i mean, hear me pomander and i shall make you the fisher of men, and on a totes unrelated note the pope wears a ring with a fisherman on it