I don’t believe in any gods or goddesses, because they are so obviously human inventions. Desert-dwellers have severe, austere and dry gods; suffering and oppressed people have loving and merciful gods; farmers have gods of rain and fruitfulness; and I have never met a liberal who believed in a conservative God or a conservative who believed in a liberal one. Every God I have ever heard of bears the indelible marks of human manufacture, and through history we can explain how and why we invented them.
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Andrew Copson , Chief executive, British Humanist Association (via New Statesman)
(Exactly- religion/god has man’s grubby fingers all over it. ‘Indelible marks of human manufacture’ is SPOT ON.)