Initially, religions tended to slant themselves toward societal cooperation.

When the industrial revolution happened, ‘The devil finds work for idle hands’ were the original common buzz words and they came from the pulpit.

Arguably Scientology started the modern self movements. And they are legion now (just most of them don’t take so far as believing in aliens or starting a religious cult) but the self-help movement is real. All are geared towards productivity.

With the advent of AI a drastic amount of the population is about to find itself out of work.

What a diety will have to account for then will be vastly different.

Those using some religious practice to get on in life might be well advised to examine Buddhism.

For new religions today the challenge to is get people to find a meaning with it coming from their vocation.