I'd ask if you think it's important to preserve the idea of the crew of the starship enterprise in "Star Trek: The Next Generation?"
In a very real sense, the crew were gods and their enemies were demons. Counselor Troi represented femininity and emotion to the point that she could sense emotions. Commander Riker was the masculine male side of the human psyche with his beard and large stature and his relationship to the female object. Warf was a warrior poet from a species of warriors. Geordi was a symbol of man and technology integrating to the point that he saw the entire world through technology (his visor). Data was the androgynous tin man through which complex human emotions like love and friendship could be visualized due to his lack of emotion.
Each one of these people was a symbol of elements of the human psyche and their enemies were distillations of human problems.
I'm not "finding reasons" to preserve the idea of God. I'm saying that the metaphor of god speaks to powers within our own psyche in the same way that the crew of the enterprise were metaphors for elements of our own psyche.
I agree that it is illogical to vest belief in a god. I do not think that notions of gods are useless. I think they are a crucial element of relating to the human experience. Metaphors are often the only way that we can effectively explore the human experience.
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