I know it's late to wade into this discussion and I really do not have time to follow it or conribute with any regularity. And maybe this post has all been said, already-- hain't read more than the OP.

But in my OT studies last week, I read that human beings just have always had a tendency, at every point in our development, to think in terms of a more-powerful force acting upon humankind-- a tendency that evolved (when the human brain evolved to the point of it being feasible) into a predilection for theological thinking.

Whether pro or con, whether one-God, many-Gods, or NO-God, it appears that it is simply part of the human condition to think about it.

And of course since we are also pre-wired to be social creatures... when we think-- we talk.

:~) Now if we could just LIMIT the talking state of expression to the thinking state of being-- it would be a lot less conflict-ridden. :~)

~Susan