The Gods are our Imaginary Friends

We refuse to feel alone in the universe

Image by Blake Meyer, from Unsplash.com

What are gods, assuming they don’t exist? They have many social functions. They’re tools for subjugating gullible hordes of uncritical thinkers; they’re mirrors reflecting our vanity or perhaps they’re harbingers of what we expect to evolve into as a result of technological progress; and they’re fictions that inure us to the inevitability…