Guilt: Perpetuating a Myth for Two-Thousand Years and Counting

I personally think that to most people, wether or not they realize
it, god is a memory of tradition & the threat of guilt. Most people
are religious since they were children because, let's face it, its
alot harder to talk an adult into believing the grand, invisible man
trick. As children they're taught this fairy tale from their parents
and they buy into it. The catch is, unlike most other fairy tales, the
parents actually believe it! So the theists grow up following the
example of their 'rents & innevitably, even if they don't admit it,
doubt MUST come to them. However, admitting that the invisible man trick is just a myth would mean accepting that their entire life, until that point, was a lie. Worse than that, their parents, granparents, etc., who may be dead or dying, also lead lives based on nonsense. This is obviously hard to deal with. However, instead of finding a more sensicle way to define their lives, they prevent the true guilt of lying to themselves & allowing their loved ones to lie
to themselves, by subdueing their moment of clarity & continuing the
self deceit.

It is unfortunate that the majority of man kind eats up this spoon
fed nonsense, but that is the world we live in.