Didn't most of those monuments originate from the publicity campaign for the movie The Ten Commandments? And the rest form part of the invented tradition stemming from those original ones?
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.'