If God did not exist,????
If God did not exist we would not exist, there would be no universe and of course there would be no story here.
“If”
The point was that human beings have a need to worship something. If they are foolish atheists, then they must invent a god or gods to worship.
In this case they’ve resurrected old pagan beliefs with nature worship and the deification of the Earth. Of course it’s at least one step (most of us believe two steps) below the proper number of entities necessary for us to exist, but since when have atheist pagans made logical sense?
Everything old is new again, to fools. Including Moloch and his ilk.