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Dick Harfield's answer puts it concisely. Gods are a construct of humans to explain the unexplainable. The Greeks had their version, as did other ancient religions. Modern religions are later versions of the theme. Our increasing understanding of science gives us explanations of how things happen, however many people choose to remain with the wide range of religious answers, but tend to reduce the number of gods to a more manageable number and having a range of gods to cover all aspects of life in less useful.
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LaoFake gods, inventions of the early Greeks. Their narratives claimed that these gods perpetrated murder on each other, rape, etc.
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