God in 2010

The God of the Christian faith has definitely lost his a great deal of his impact on this planet. We have come a long way from societies where religion was the absolute truth and anything against it was blasphemy.    Societies were formed around God and government's claimed to act according to the will of this God. Now, the frequency of how many times God is mentioned or how important his history and impact on the world are mere fractions of what they used to be. Instead of being thanked for keeping a civilization in power or functioning. He is thanked for meaningless things such as academy awards or touchdowns.
Why has this happened? Man has the ability to manipulate and question their environment unlike any other creature that has ever existed or continues to exist. The questions and answers evolve as we do.  Early answers to our existence claim that many gods are responsible for many things that are out of our control.  This explained everything for awhile and then human's questions and answers evolved once more and humans believed that if there was a higher power, there would only be one. The answer would then evolve into what we know as Christianity. Christianity answered arguably the most important question of all time. How did we come to exist on this planet so its only logical that the religion would have extreme significance on any and everything.
What does Christianity mean today? Some would say truth. Some would say its mythology. What do I say? Control.    Christianity arguably has kept the world from destroying ourselves and the planet with ideas of what's right and wrong.