From worshipping the creator of the world to worshipping the creator of the car.. what's wrong with this picture?

Though it never comes right out and explains it, an unsettling trend appears in this book that makes you do a sort of double take. You could basically go through the entire book, cross out the word Ford, replace it with God, and the book would make a lot more sense. This futuristic world has completely demolished the practice of religion in its practical sense and instead replaced it with a loyalty to Ford, the creator of the model T car. This is the one part of the novel that makes the most and the least sense to me. Obviously picking Ford was because the invention of the car was a big deal at the time this book was written, and if you were to take this book in context today you could really put anyone's name of grave importance into that slot. No, the part that baffles me is an entire society that does not even question the absence of religion. Maybe like the savage this comes from my upbringing. Being raised catholic it's hard to see how anyone could live without faith, but that aside I don't even think that's it. I've often questioned my beliefs and even wondered if other faiths would offer a better path for me. Often times I realize my faith is a big combination of all of it, but no matter what I believe I always believe in SOMETHING. The more I look at the world the more I have to believe there is some kind of higher power or being that created all of it. There's just no way a human being could even begin to fathom it's origins let alone create them. So how is it an entire society has completely written it off as a bunch of nonsense, but chooses rather to give their respect to an inventor of a silly moving contraption. Again this could come from the fact that I take things such as cars for granted due to the fact that I've been around them all my life and they're nothing special really, but still I just can't piece it together. I honestly feel that living in a world so void of anything greater would feel like a waste of a lifetime.