Reply #3: "There is no safety in the cosmos." - Alan Watts

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

People believe in God, or Gods, to try and find safety. Facing one's mortality and insignificance is difficult, at best. It's just much easier to have a belief that "I'm special" and don't really have to face the enevitable loss of "self". Therefore, we erect a sort of boss who lays down rules that we would like to think will preserve us if we are "good", "obedient", "worshipful", etc.

All one has to do to understand how ridiculous the notion is of a "personal" god is to take a look around the universe to see how incredibly insignificant we egomaniacs of the universe are.