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To me Dust is more like Mako in FF7 (greatest RPG of the 90s). It's put into weapons and armor. You're not suppose to be expose to it in its raw form. Its mined from the earth and is like the planet's essence.

I don't think the gods are dead, but they might as well be sense they're no help. They are aware that Salem is skull fucking their creations and yet they are too busy playing with some other new toy (likely another planet) to care. That's my headcannon anyway.