God is an idealized human with a scientific world view

or

God is an idealized anthropomorphic abstraction of a homozygous people's physical and cultural traits.

or

God is the people

To understand how God can be The People, we must first understand homozygous peoples.  Homozygous people look alike.  The mother looks like the father, looks like the child, looks like the grandfather.  Today, some Asian people are homozygous.

The parents of these students look identical to these students.

The ancient Greeks were another homozygous people.

To explain how God can be the people, we will use the ancient Greeks and Identical Twins research.

To begin, Greek gods looked like people (anthropomorphic). 

Zeus

If you went anywhere in Greece, the statues of the Gods all looked alike.  That is because the Greeks all looked alike (homozygous).  If you asked a Greek citizen what God looked like, he could say, "God looks like me".  In fact, if you wanted to know what a handsome man or beautiful woman looked like in ancient Greece, just look at their statues of Gods.  The sculptor used only the best models for their Gods. Therefore, to the Greeks

God was the people idealized

If we look closely at pictures of Zeus and Menelaus below, we see that they are different from their forehead down to their upper lip.

                             Zeus                                      King Menelaus

That is no accident.  The Greeks believed that a prominent forehead was a sign of intelligence and nobility.  So, they made the facial angle of Zeus 100⁰ and Menelaus 90⁰.

The actual facial angle of the average Greek was 80⁰.  The Greeks idealized both Zeus and their king.

Interestingly, 2000 years later, we now know the Greeks were right.  Science indicates that the frontal lobe of the brain is the place where forethought is processed in human intelligence.

It is the place where the thing that makes you You is located.

So, fasten your seat belts and don't smash your forehead on the windshield because you won't be You anymore.

Therefore, we can say that God is the people.  And, He holds sacred the people's churches, priests, altars, prayers, services, shrines, symbols, land and sky, their mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, forests, moon and sun, their government, bridges, buildings, monuments, memorials, courts, and leaders.  And, that is just a few of the things that God hold's sacred, or holy.

Attributes Of God

God is everywhere (omnipresent)

God knows everything (omniscient)

God is all powerful (omnipotent)

These 3 attributes of God operate, somewhat like this:

Omnipresent

If God is the people, and the people looked like their Gods, then the Greeks had a powerful feeling of God's presence every day.  To them God was everywhere.  They even believed that a stranger could be God because the Greeks believed that Gods sometimes walked among them.

Omniscient

Identical Twins research indicates that 80% of human behavior is genetic.  For that reason, Identical Twins not only look very much alike, but they also behave very much alike.  They also appear to know what each other is thinking or doing, even though they are miles apart.  The ability of Synchronous Twins to anticipate each other is astounding.  In fact, some research suggests that Identical Twins have telepathic abilities.  If that were true, then we can easily explain God's omniscience in a homozygous society.

Thus, in homozygous society, the community (God) is aware of the individual, and the individual is aware of the community.  Even one threatened Spartan in a far off land could cause the Greeks to go to war to protect him.  At least, that's what the Helen of Troy story tells us.  Helen was not a Trojan, she was a Spartan whom a Trojan prince kidnapped.  Her husband, King Menelaus, went to war. And, all of Greece went with him. 

Perhaps, Joan of Arc is actually a 17 year old, illiterate, peasant girl who sensed the Collective Spirit of her Homozygous fellow countrymen and arose to save her country.  How else can science explain her well documented history?

Joan of Arc

If telepathy exists in homozygous societies, can you imagine the feeling of God's presence, the feeling of community, the feeling of brotherhood, the feeling of God's power, and the sharing of information that will exist in a Monozygous (clone) people in the future?  And, don't even think about laying a hand on one of them.

Monozygous

(Identical Triplets)

To express the idea another way, think of a closely knit family in primeval times.  Think how the family feels about the individual.  Think how the individual feels about the family.  Would the family fight to the death for the individual?  Would the individual lay down his life for the family?  Thus, the members of the family are very much aware of each other.  They are omniscient.  They have a tremendous feeling for each other, a feeling that perhaps can be telepathic.

To use another example, think about early Native American tribes.  Think how the tribe felt about the individual.  Think how the individual felt about the tribe.  They were extremely aware of each other.

Or, finally, think about Killer Bees (Apis mellifera scutellata).  Think about the hive's response to one of its members being attacked.

Omnipotent

The Greeks did not believe their Gods were all powerful.  Possibly, the Greeks were realists.  They realized that God (the community) can't do everything for us.  They realized that sometimes when people pray to God, they still get sick or die.  So, the Greeks created the Fates to explain this weirdness of life.  They believed that Fate transformed rich men into paupers and healthy men into invalids, or vice versa.  Perhaps, the Greeks are the ones who said, "God helps those who help themselves".

Therefore, the Greeks believed that God was very powerful and could help them, but sometimes Fate intervened and God was powerless to change what was predestined to happen to them.  They could not change their fate.

Interestingly, the Germans had a similar God named, Wyrd.  And, when life didn't go the way they hoped or expected, the Germans would say, that's Wyrd.

Nevertheless, the homozygous Greeks helped each other immensely, very much like the Amish do today.

Today, the ancient Greeks are gone, and technology unites people from all over the world, each with their own religion.  If God is the people, but the people are diverse, how do we know which God to worship?  Or,

Can God exist in a diverse, multicultural society?

Yes, God exists in any society that has heroes.

Evolution has discovered that a species can survive better if its members subordinate themselves to the species.  For that reason, individuals within the species are genetically programmed to sacrifice their life for their family, for their neighbor, for their country.  

These individuals are called Heroes.

This genetic predisposition is called Piety.

Heroes are pious people.

To understand the strength of heroism, think of the honey bee's instinct to sacrifice its life for the hive.  Humans have that same instinct. Therefore, if God is the people, then

Heroes can and will worship their country as a God.

Heroes do not separate church and state.  God and country are one.

Every country that has Heroes has God.

Without Heroes, God does not exist.

No Heroes, no God

Without Heroes, no country exists

because

Heroes sacrifice themselves for the good of us all.

Heroes are very much aware of their community and the people in it.

And, the community is very much aware of them.

No Heroes, no country

Without Heroes, no family exists.

Parents must sacrifice themselves for their children.

And, heroic children will sacrifice themselves for their parents.

No Heroes, no family

Ask yourself these hero questions,

• If your children were trapped in a burning house, would you risk your life to save them?

• Would you risk your life to for your mother and father?

To summarize,

• The Collective Consciousness and the Will of a heroic people is our God, is our country, and is the heart and soul of the family. 

• This Consciousness is, to an extent, All Knowing, Omnipresent, and All Powerful. 

• Collective Consciousness and the Will of a heroic people are the only Beings in the universe that can watch over us, help us, and influence our life.

Therefore, we can worship, pray to, and be loyal to this concept of God, family, and country.

And, God, the nation, the community, the people, the family will do everything in its power to watch over us, help us, and protect us.

Once again, Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships was not a Trojan.  Helen was a Spartan, the wife of King Menelaus.  And, the Greeks were her people come to rescue her.

Now, if all this is true, if God is the people, the community, the species, then we can understand our need for God and for piety. 

Piety is our genetic predisposition to completely subordinate ourselves to the community, to our country, to our family, to our God.

God and piety are not mankind's delusion.

God and piety are mankind's strategy for survival.

Every Hero is pious.

Important:

Heroic societies must be composed of Heroes.

Heroes are genetic Givers. They contribute freely to the commonwealth.

However, in a world of chaos, some people are genetic Takers. They use cults to misdirect and exploit a Hero's piety.

Heroes can destroy the Takers with one sentence,