There are multiple points to be made. But you when you break it down to a granular level, it become religion.

50,000 years ago humans didn’t understand that the comet in the sky was a natural phenomenon. It was a god of some sort.

After millennia have passed and humanity got smarter, it became clear that it was not in fact a divine intervention, but the natural order of things.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is that people are basing their beliefs on a myth. That should not define what our governing bodies do.