ok, first off.
There are several gods. People all have a different view of the creator of the universe, and thusly there’s either no god or several gods.
I also think that people who have sh*tty lives tend to believe in the more constricting gods.(a) Or your born into a constricting religion, brainwashed to believe it’s “bible truth” (or “koran truth”, Bhagavad Gita truth, etc) from childhood. Some people (through what proves the soul) are born with questioning minds though, and when told a “truth” of the world, they don’t accept it and question it.
This is un-natural and goes against natural evolution by itself. My estimate is that those who are born questioning everything are older “souls”. They’ve been around the block so to speak.
So knowing this, why believe that your version of god is correct? Isn’t POSSIBLE, that what you think of god is in fact the construct of the organizer of said religion? Isn’t possible that spiritual enlightenment lays outside the realms of construct?
All religions and all versions of god, are constructs of MEN. Man built god in his own image.(b) The ultimate creator. The ultimate protector. The ultimate vengeance when someone crosses you or doesn’t listen to you or doesn’t love you.
Men are all of those things. God is simultaneously none of those things and all of those things. God is female and male, yin and yang. Enlightenment is available to those who ask.
(a) these types of people tend to feel alone and are in fact doing things to hurt themselves and others. Instead of taking the logical step that your current behavior is the cause of your pain, they make the illogical step that the lack of god is the cause of your pain. These types of people NEED the strict structure of moral religion to have any sort of morality. That is why when confronted with "the (insert your holy book here) is not a source of ultimate morality. Their reply will always be “without that ultimate morality, people would hurt, maime and kill!”. This of course is not true. One flip through any of these books and you can see that our modern world has BETTER morality than the people within these books.
(b)Early religions (which haven’t evolved), based their god on what they knew. God lived IN the clouds, LITERALLY. The Earth was flat, and god destroyed cities with volcanos. I’m gonna guess that some of the historical documents that the catholic church destroyed during the inquisition showed that early christians believed that pompeii was a sign of the return of christ.