Art's gods

Does serious art always serve a god? I think "Yes" is a reasonable answer. The Pharaoh, Osiris, the myriad beings of Olympus, the Emperor, the Buddha, Ganesh, Shiva, Allah, Loki, Inagi, Jesus, Mary, Mother Russia, Mother Nature...the list is endless.
By mid-19th century, science asserted itself into the cultural equation in a powerful way. Evolution, genetics, atomic theory, relativity, artificial intelligence, brain mapping...the list is endless.
For many, the gods appeared to have scattered. Not true, they appeared (as false gods) in the form of money, materialism, secularism, capitalism, the holy corporation.
For the serious artist, this meant that the search for the gods in the exterior world was futile. The only place the gods could be (which is where they always were) was in the interior world.