I wasn’t intending to suggest that I haven’t any emotional investment.
The only regard to lacking emotion that I was referring to was regarding gods.
In the same way, just because I lack any emotional drive towards homosexual attraction, this does not infer that I lack sexual drive itself.
The cardinal center of what I have been discussing is that our magnified sensory of emotion mixed with our magnified quality of identity (what a cup is, what a dream is, what the universe is, what “I” am, what “you” are, what existence is, etc…) and our increased capacity of causal forethought is what is the very cause of religion; being that with all of this increased amplitude and frequency, especially in an cognitively associative capacity, there is a greater rattling upon the bamboo stick as it is racketed upon the ground.
Following the bamboo stick analogy, religion is the means of interpreting how to move the body and the swinging of the bamboo stick to maintain control over the stick as we swing it around.
One way will say to swing it slower, another will say to take pauses, another will say to move the body with the rattling of the stick, another will instruct how to become stronger in an idea of resisting the rattling, and another will push for focusing upon the time after the stick is done being racketed as the coping method of the rattling during racketing, etc…
A stick is a simple thing.
Existing as a human is far more complicated, especially when it comes with a brain function which creates identity, and subconscious emotional recognition therein, of existence itself.
Regarding our limits:
Now personally, I don’t see a need for gods to comprehend the idea of extending our capacity beyond our limit, or understanding that we have one.
Humanity has done this with and without gods.
Gods will probably always be with humans; I don’t see a means of stripping that out unless we have a radical evolutionary change to our biology that is as radical as the difference between H. Erectus and H. Sapiens Sapiens.
How we reach beyond our limit is by our imagination.
We imagined to fly; impossible; and then we did.
We imagined to be in space; impossible; and then we did.
We imagined knowing the order of nature; impossible; and then we did (and still are).
When we write stories of grand civilizations, be they aliens or fantasy, and imagine of them that which is far beyond our reach today - we set the bar of what we then reach for.
Star Trek is one of the easiest examples; the Martin Cooper, the inventor of the first mobile phones openly states he saw the tricorder being used by Captain Kirk and it inspired him to make a mobile phone.
Look at us today, we haven’t a tricorder, but we have this brilliant result that is just short of a tricorder (and in some ways, better than).
H.G. Wells outlined atomic bombs fictionally (chain reacting, perpetually exploding bombs).
And it was only after reading his idea of atomic bombs that physicist Leo Szilard then had the inspiration for a neutron reaction - which permitted for the creation of the atomic bomb.