"God" is simply another name for "unknown". When people face the unknown they look for similarities in familiar things and if they can anthropromorphize something they more than likely will. This is just a simple survival mechanism that has served humankind throughout the ages. When you are spending all of your time worrying about how the weather works, you are spending less time planting the crops that will benefit from it. So a primitive person will create something to fill that unknown void with a formula. Something along the lines of "If I do a dance and make a sacrifice, it will rain" or "It's been dry lately, so something, or someone, must be wrong. The god(s) is/are not pleased". It works...to a limited extent. Insomuch as more "real" work gets done since afterall what good ever came of sitting around and pondering the unknown?
As it turns out, there is great return on the investment. It's just that many often fail and most are ridiculed for their pursuit of answering "unknowable" things. Look at how The Church persecuted the likes of Galileo for the "heresy" of even suggesting that the Earth wasn't the center of "God's Universe"? Let alone the fact that THAT fact was known many many years before when, for theological reasons, the great library of Alexandria was destroyed. Destroyed not by those who feared the unknown, but destroyed by those who feared what power and control they had might be challenged should things be explained differently. Things which were often the crux of the mechanism that gave them what power they had...
And so, "god" can be said to be nothing more than a simple program, an "app", if you will, that allows their mind to be settled and thus allows them to focus on other things. Plug something in, you get something out. It's the struggle to change...the threat of "uninstall" of a familiar app...that causes so much bloodshed in this world...
Ah...there's the oven alarm... Isn't technology great? ;)
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