Religion did not work like you think it did.
“over time, these customs won’t seem so strange anymore. Humans have a tendency to assume that whatever the customs – for instance, for diplomacy – are in our time, that this is just the right and normal way to do things. But diplomatic customs vary wildly by time and culture and are essentially arbitrary”
https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polytheism-part-i-knowledge/