Technology, materialism, science. The currents of thought that move us based on perceived value and belief, and where myths and assumptions stem from.

A popular creation myth at the moment is simulation theory.

Reducing consciousness to material data-processing is a way to believe there's a possibility of life after body-death.

A popular "promised-land" myth is that technology will save us.

The assumption that mind stems from matter is so commonly beheld that people take it as fact, in the same way some people take god as a fact, unquestioningly.

  Well I used to stand for something
  Now I'm on my hands and knees
  Traded in my God for this one
  And he signs his name with a capital G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGsw-tlSo2Q

Well atheists say they have no gods but behave in ways that is similar to pagan worship. Like their property, technologies, celebrities, CEOs, identitties, wealth, fictional characters, themselves...