My people have changed their Glory for what does not profit.
Cases differ, to be sure, but most faith-renouncers confess to sensing a void inside.
They have an emptiness that must be filled. Inevitably, they turn to a God-substitute. Joseph Goebbels scorned his religious upbringing that taught him about Christ. For Goebbels that something was really someone. None other than the murderous Adolf Hitler became Goebbels' God-substitute.