A big part of this is a result of many people not thinking that god wants you to shut the fuck up and do what you're told your whole life so you get to go to the super cool place when you die.

Realizing you have only one life to live and they want you to spend the best years being a cog in a machine that hates you and wants to keep you down makes you really not want to work for them.

This is why they propagandized the Internet so hard with religion, all these manfluencers and right wing grifters always need to include religion in some way (bonus points for Christianity), because that makes you so much easier to enslave into working yourself to death for nothing.