“Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.” – Sylvia Plath
Is religion and a belief in a God-like creature just an extrapolation of a child’s “imaginary friend”?
If so, why can’t we, as a race, grow up?
From childhood, humans are capable of forming enduring, stable and important social relationships with fictional characters, imaginary friends and super heroes. Thus, for humans, it is not difficult to imagine a god who is although invisible and intangible, yet somehow involved with them. Religious thoughts are based on tacit assumptions, when people proclaim their loyalty to a particular faith, they subscribe to claims for which there is no evidence.
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