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Especially as the wilderness wouldn't of been some detached deity - but through the form of Shauna's baby as Jesus was Mary's. There would've been some person to put all that worship and faith into. As the cult really fell apart due to Natalie's crowning and she showed them reason, in no certain terms Shauna acting as regent queen for her son would've done the complete opposite.

Shauna who wants her baby to be hers, having him being the one thing that has come from her and that no one can take away, but also wants to be in power, thinks that she deserves to be.

I think that Shauna being showed to convey all of her pain into anger about her miscarriage could've been ten times worse if there were an active threat. Her dictatorship could've gone rampant and she would've had Lottie's full support, as she did in s3.