Since black government is inherently profane, the temples either have to denounce the government, or denounce the gods. In Athens, they denounced the gods. Which is where you get Christianity, which stops with wink-wink nudge-nudge and simply denounces the divine directly. Goes all Orwellian black = white and white = black. "Render unto holy Caesar was is holy Caesar's."
Then you get Atheism proper. "Why bother with this fig-leaf devil-god? Denounce all higher powers, that we might worship the State alone."
The gods did not abandon humanity, humanity abandoned the divine. Holiness was disinvited. Consequently, aristocracy was underpaid and quit. A higher human is too much like a higher power - it has to go.
Ultimately, life itself will be denounced. To be alive is to be symbolically conscious and animate, to symbolically Exist. Far too divine. It will have to go - life contradicts government.
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