This happened throughout history, not just now. Religion is used as an instrument, but does not necessarily reflect the underlying meaning.

There's only hunger for power. Man's essence.

Erwin Schrödinger might have abused children because why not, "everything is a wave after all. does it really matter what one wave does to another?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_...

That justification is so rediculous for anyone that can think, like which side should He take?

Either god is me (secularism) or god is something outside me (Christianity). One is going to be better than the other. It matters which one. Everyone has an answer, and it affects your morals. Whether or not you are consistent brings you back to that same question: “who says?”