Man created god as a coping mechanism

I’ve always been an atheist. I’m not gonna change. I had a fun thought though. If I was a soldier in world war 2, in the middle of a firefight… I would most definitely start talking to god. Not out of belief, but out of comfort.

This is my “evidence” if you will, for man’s creation of god(s). We’ve been doing it forever, because it’s a phenomenal coping mechanism for the danger we faced in the hard ancient world, as well as the cruel modern world.

God is an imaginary friend. That’s not even meant to be all that derogatory either. Everyone talks to themselves. Some of us just convince ourselves that we’re talking to god. Some of us go a bit further and convince us that he’s listening.