Originally Posted by zen_tom

God is a person's highest aspiration of themselves.

He is what we strive to become, either personally or as a society. In ages gone by God, or Gods have had very different personalities, manifestations and numbers. These often reflect somewhat the prevailing civil organisation of the time. The Judao/Christian God (assuming it's the same one) appears to have gone through at least one major personality revision himself. Who knows what paths other Gods have taken?

If we create Gods in our own image, it might be interesting to look in this divine mirror, and learn a lot more about ourselves, and our ancestors in the process.