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Or maybe like real life they worshipped them because they were fucking stupid?
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I'm going to do my best to not get overly mad at you right now. Who exactly was fucking stupid? And why are they any more stupid for worshiping animals than worshiping an invisible force in the sky?
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My theory is that maybe they offered protection? Think about real life, religious people believe that their god (whoevber they worship) can provide them with protection
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Again, I find it more than a little strange that you're trying to equate a monotheistic religion to polytheistic indigenous religions. Why not compare them to real world animistic religions instead of a set of monotheistic religious scriptures that have been tweaked and changed for nearly two thousand years?
Mudokons are a shamanistic race that believe in souls, much like many other animistic cultures, and I think it's a safe bet that they believe the creatures of Mudos have souls as well.
Seeing as one of the biggest themes in Oddworld is a loss of cultural identity, it would make sense that these beliefs are very old, and out-date the enslavement of Mudokons. Industrialism is killing the beliefs of old. The industrialism isn't giving rise to these beliefs.