[krapp]

>Does this mean money is god for most people?

Yes.

>All these are things that happen to people who believe in a god or multiple gods.

And many religions consider the pursuit of wealth and material happiness beyond the basics of subsistence to be sinful. The Bible says one cannot serve both God and Mammon (capitalism). Buddhism might say money can only buy suffering.

>That things can be, and frequently are, out of our control is what makes people create gods as a support system.

You may be confusing cause and effect. "Money" is a response to uncertainty just as "Zeus" and "Poseidon" were millennia ago. The need to create order from chaos and give morality and purpose to the blind amorality of nature leads cultures to collectively develop these opinions. They just happen not to be primarily supernatural in the modern context.

The beliefs around "Money" are equivalent to those around gods - that the free market determines the true value of human life, that work ennobles the soul, that poverty is the result of moral fault and wealth of moral virtue. Money mediates the uncertainties of life in the same way people once believed rituals and prayers did. Money in many ways represents the animating spirit of modern civilization the way gods once represented the anthropomorphization of the natural world, in both its benevolence and cruelty. People trust the word of millionaires and billionaires implicitly, regardless of what they're talking about, as if they were prophets and possessed some divine insight into reality that mere mortals didn't.