Who knows? I surely don’t. It appears that someone sold the whole family to satan and all acquiesed. Someone, something (money/power) blinded them to right and wrong or made them justify that wrong was right and the father of lies became so convincing that in the end they believed they really were championing the poor and the helpless and not just themselves while they became richer and more powerful.
I’m convinced an atheist is less of a danger to society than an apostate Catholic.