deities

If all facts lead to a deities existence, then science would have a theory of this deities involvement.

The veneration of saints shares a lot of features in common with the worship of lesser deities in the Greco-Roman pantheon.

Fans/the system treat these guys like deities and also expect them to be humble.

A lack of deities does not make this not a religion (see nontheistic religions[1]).

This need to be worshipped is what I found to be the most bizarre characteristic of deities.

They use deities as symbols for the major natural powers and appreciate them.

Instead of Vedanta we have the same mysticism, where all the deities are morphed into the one.

In that talk, he also discusses in detail the immortality of the human soul, telepathic communication with personal benevolent deities, and mystic healing.

The Greeks made them all white like themselves, and assigned gender roles to the male and female deities based on their ancient society's roles.

It doesn't require any faith or belief in made up deities.

But it's very hard not to notice how the singulariters' belief in noncorporal-intelligent deities is a clear, a bit sad, reflection of their own fantasies.

Here's what we do know: 1) It's a fact that pre-modern humans didn't just believe in deities but interpreted their world through them.

The obvious question is: "how many deities did the design?

When it was "known" that superhuman deities rule the world, the afterlife was their domain; now, when science rules, ideas from science fiction explain those (currently?) superhuman abilities and the after-life they bring.

The broad definition of atheism would be the absence of belief that any deities exist, but in practice, most people who define themselves as atheists lump it up with a set of false beliefs that, although being far better than believing in a "bearded old guy in the sky who cares what I do", are still very far from being solid truths.