Religion is a scam; misguided at best and a predatory at worst.

Not sure how this relates, but I just read the novel “Lord of Light” where the human founders of a colony planet install themselves as gods and install “pray-o-matic” machines for the populace so they can exchange currency for good karma, which will influence whether they get reborn as a human (because they also created this technology).

The guy with the elefant head has a belly.