I tried to ignore this yesterday, but since people replied...
Atheism? Really? Atheism is the bad thing?
Uh, not to spoil the fun, but we probably shouldn't answer baffler, it is some obvious bait.
If it's bait, it's 70-year-old bait; Americans were ranting against "godless Communism" since the '50s. If you want to go back farther, the Victorians found ample religious justification for blaming poor people for their own poverty as a natural consequence of their moral failings.
It is not entirely illogical, either, provided one starts from sufficiently perverse premises. If capitalism is defensible from a social standpoint, it must be a meritocracy; if it is a meritocracy, it follows that there must be some proof somewhere that everyone is where they deserve to be. Religion can be a conveniently unfalsifiable justification for any given socioeconomic hierarchy if that's what you want out of it. Incel rhetoric and "reverse racism" pearl-clutching likewise gain traction in young Republican circles from reflexive resistance to any suggestion their wealth is unearned, as does the CEO cult worship.
Crank magnetism works similarly. You never have to admit you're wrong if you just constantly put together ad hoc reasons why all the evidence to the contrary isn't worth considering and let the backfire effect dictate all subsequent reasoning.