So you say it is the powerful/influencial materialists who do not believe in the supernatural who desire the belief in it to continue, thus ensuring confusion/distraction from the reality that the mass is are seen as pack animals, and carrots are continuously being displayed, and every now and then some "lucky" soul is allowed to get at the carrot as an example of what could happen to others, kinda like the lottery: illegal for me to operate one.
I must agree, to think that the latest president really believes in god as he professes is absurd,
even if one makes themselves believe as I think the vice tries to do, this still does not create true belief, and I suspect that they really are aware of what they are doing and trying to accomplish for future. Hows the paper going?