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So humans can in general be said to have a divine impulse, being an impulse to create/follow a divine power.
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I'd be happier saying that we have a natural curiosity, the ability to imagine and the tendency to anthropomorphise. Bundle these things up together and you start creating wild theories about the unexplainable. It's the same thing, whether you are a 5 year-old quaking under your bedclothes because of imagined bogeymen, or a Bishop handing out the Eucharist.
I can't help thinking that calling this hodgepodge of cognitive function a 'divine impulse' is elevating it somewhat beyond its station.