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There was no mention of God because Rodgers was simply acting out an extreme version of what took place in the Garden of Eden: Man turns his attention from God to a goddess (woman), looking for emotional attachment and validation, a sort of emotional vampirism searching for meaning not from the metaphysical but from natural (flawed and betraying) people to assure the pride in his misperception of himself and satisfy the emptiness which can only be resided by the supernatural. Eden went like this:

God gets lonely.

God makes the serpent.

The serpent betrays God.

God makes man.

Man gets lonely.

God makes woman.

Man betrays God and worships woman instead.

Woman betrays man and worships the serpent.

Then lonely man reconciles with lonely God who hugs him back and says, "I know bro."

Women lose respect for men when they set them on a pedestal to worship the way Rodgers did when he should have been staying focused on his relationship with the supernatural. When woman becomes your whole world (your god) she subconsciously resents that you have thrown the cosmic hierarchy of nature out of balance. The hierarchy goes down in authority from God - Man - Woman - Child. Nature's structure demands man to stand between God and woman and pull her up as she in turn pulls the children up behind her. When man miscues this sequence of function by letting his attention and affection turn from God by getting down on his knees before a woman (a body language of submission and weakness, not alpha dog) and tells her she is his whole life (a mantra the belongs to God), she secretly resents having to assume not just a man's role, not just a mother of a man-baby role, but the role of god. Women can instinctively read this dysfunctional energy simply by the look in your eye. That's why Rodgers could never establish a relationship. I believe it happened because Rodgers was emotionally traumatized as a child through neglect and rejection, a cycle that snowballed until poor Elliot was no longer Elliot. He had opened a porthole to hell and a heartless monster took his place. "I live in the weak and the wounded." The hell we people cause each other.