We don’t need a god to give that fear. A functioning society would have a strong enough social contract, and actual punishments for those who go against it.

Instead, we got a smiteful and all powerful god who will tell you to listen to your priests or you’ll burn forever in hell. Well what happens when shitty people Abuse that power? Suddenly priests shift their dogma to revere the very type of person that we should be ostracizing and casting out of society.