I've thought that too. I mean all these elite fucks must be doing these rituals for some reason, right? They must get something out of it?
If God is real, then so is the devil. If Q tells us to pray, then the dirt that prays to Lucifer, etc. might also get some sort of dark power out of it.
I'm very scientific-minded so it's a little stretch to grasp this, but I also know that science has it's limits and doesn't explain the existence of the universe very well.
There's always that, "Who/what created XXXX" paradox.