Why do these people even pretend to be interested in God.
Because to their parishioners, they make God look like He agrees with them.
That lets them, on behalf of their selfishness, trump anyone else who also believes in God to keep their attacks at bay.
I think all the pretense is gone. Even they can't hide their absurd secular-humanism-leftism any longer, much less pretend it has anything to do with orthodox Christianity!
As Karl Marx (whom I'm sure they admire!) once said, they have - in their own inimitable way turned tragedy into farce!