I am a Christian and can see where you're going with this, and if I'm allowed to paraphrase, there's been a gradual reduction of God in the hearts and minds of the proletariat. I can actually get behind the spirit of that, if not the historical implementation.

I might caution though that many times throughout history Christians have historically been like the Pharisees of the Gospels. The Pharisees were basically the "church" leaders of Jesus's time. Of course there was no "church" and these guys were Rabbis and not reverends, preachers, or pastors, but functionally they were equivalent.

Also, I would use the word synagogue in place of "church" but for some bizarre and completely illogical reason, "Christians" disconnect when you say synagogue, because it's "convenient" to forget that Jesus was himself a Jew who spent quite a bit of time in the synagogue.

In any case, Jesus had this to say about the Pharisees in Matthew 23:5:

“Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7 they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others."

In other words, for them and for too many other Christians in history, it's all about appearances. I think Ghandi had the most amazing quote which fits perfectly. "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."