Ok, lets take belief(in anything) out of this. This has little to do with belief, and everything to do with greed, and people ignoring facts and long term consequences because it is firstly inconvenience and secondly will interfere with their ability to partially satisfy their greed. Do you follow my point now?
They pay lip service to religion(because right now that is popular). As it becomes less so (quite likely in America), they will start to pay lip service to other popular ideas. They are after all merely reflecting the image of their voters to try and retain what they have.
You were marked as a troll, unfairly, but you have to realize you are connecting things that are not really connected. They merely give the appearance of a link.