Jim that comment about the accepted definition was not meant for you. You were not broadening the definition to make your point.

The current difference between Hobbits and for that Matter "Zeus and Hera" is that there are currently about 2.5 people who believe, one way or another in the God of Abraham. Also I believe another 1.5 billion in India and elsewhere, including my wife and I imagine, Amos and possibly Little Hawk who believe in what I consider to be different aspects of that same God.

Maybe it is just brain chemicals as some of the articles I linked to suggest.

Maybe it is as Joseph Campbell suggested, a manifestation of the collective unconscious of the human race.

Maybe it is a combination of natural forces we have not yet discovered.

Maybe it is a Freud suggested, and Dawkins after him, a massive delusion. (Though Freud's view of psychology and the world was so flawed that I have trouble taking anything he said seriously except to apply it to a small, frankly crazy minority.)

Maybe there is only one God and his name is Allah.

Maybe nearly everyone is right, Maybe only the Quakers or the RC Church is right.

I don't know. I am just trying to find my own way.