What do you suppose gives rise to and supports belief in God? Obviously in this day and age such belief is deliberately cultivated in the children of those who already have and value it. But its seems belief in gods goes back as far back as we can track and nearly everywhere. Of course it comes in many varieties. But it seems lame to me to attribute god belief to a primitive attempt to explain the natural world. God belief goes back much further than any attempt to explain anything. So what is it about the way we are as people which prompts god belief? I've been thinking about this for a while and have some ideas, but what do you think?