“Belief” and “dis-Belief” in “deities” is simply a muddle of modernity reflecting back on inherited modes of comprehension. Doctrinaire Marxists were/are quite definitely theists (albeit of a modern sort) as they BEGIN their discussions with something like (flyerboys goes into a reverie of remembrance) a profound ponderful in-out puff on pipe, then a deep breath with a quasi-mystical roll of the idiot Section Leader Teaching Assistant’s eyes as he proclaims the almighty existence of DIALECTIC PROCESS underlying, uhmmm, everything in the universe! (flyerboys leaves the room to barf and drop that economics course).
Because at least our languages, cultures, and quite possibly also our hard wired evolved brain function are deeply based on cause and effect, on chains of causality, we inevitable find ourselves consciously or unconsciously positing a “prime mover” or “primordial mystical egg” or whatever.
I do not mind religions, in fact i find most of them wonderful beautiful and even useful, at least until they put on airs like that idiot section head.
End of Rant