Idolatry then.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/the_cult_of_covid_proved_how_desperate_westerners_are_for_meaning.html
https://ehyde.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/erich-fromm-on-modern-idolatry-where-psychotherapy-and-religion-intersect/
The way, truth, and life are not objects to be handled and manipulated but a reality to unite with, to enter into – in this case, God through the person of Jesus Christ. To worship God is to be integrated into His life. This orientation battles with our human need to deify the objects of our affection, whatever they may be; it is why the Christian life is at once an “easy yoke” and a “light burden,” yet a rigorous striving to “enter through the narrow gate.”
But the purely secular person (if such a being exists) is not off the hook. He/she is still oriented to substitute what is real with what is illusory, what is authentic with what is inauthentic, as an unconscious method of deferring painful and fearful realities for another time. The irreligious person is every bit as inclined as the religious person to slap labels on realities outside their control in order to reduce them to something intellectually manageable; to neatly categorize them rather than enter into them, to struggle with them.
The twin brother of this is the act of making trivial things into things of supreme concern, that is, of deifying them, which is the hallmark of neurosis.
The deification of things is the ground upon which one loses touch with oneself and his or her real existential concerns, resorting instead to chasing phantoms as a way of coping. This is the very battle ground where Fromm believes that psychoanalysis and religion intersect and work together to heal the individual