Are you suggesting that we don't work to eradicate poverty because that would remove the religious reason to get a hard-on for helping the poor? If so, then fuck you.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'