I cannot answer for God or gods, but I can answer for me. My lifesblood, and that of my people, is that sacred oath, that vow of fealty I owe. Humanity isn't individuals alone. Our felicity is the good company of our peers, our families and friends and neighbors. It is only the infestation of brutes that drives many of us to seek solitude, where we are free from molestation and bloody oppression by barbarians and overlords that use them to isolate and fractionate our number.

When we can be secure because we can manufacture modern security tech that makes collective force obsolete, we can freely associate without fear of brutalization and bloody subjugation again, and we will, because that is wealth, our good company.

It is not fealty to overlords that creates that wealth. It is not faith in rumors whispered by oracles and priests in hazy miasma of hallucinogenic incense. It is the perversion of that holy and sacred society of people that has been effected by corrupt priests and psychopathic overlords that has driven us from faiths.

It has driven us to reason instead of dogma, to knowledge instead of faith, to fellowship instead of subjugation. I seek not to dissuade people from their lifelines, from their grasp on goodness by whatever means has made sense to them, but I do espouse securing what is good by such power as God or gods has availed us, to create modern means of security from thugs barbarian and overlord, to produce goods and services we can share for goodwill and exchange for those goods and services our friends, families, and neighbors produce.

In time the truth will out, and security from overlords and coercion will facilitate ascertaining the truth, not obscure it. The laws of physics aren't caprice, aren't false witnesses to reality, but either delivered by God or Providence for our edification, adoption, and felicity.