Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to. There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done. Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.
Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror. I imagine that fish have no word for water. He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. I'm one of mine.