Why is it, one asks oneself, that all religious gods tend to be of the omniscient, omnipotent variety?

The obvious conclusion is of course that egomanic anthropocentrism is at play, and no theory which puts the Earth, us, or any of the Earth species at it's centre can therefore be taken at all seriously. The inherent tendency to aggrandise God is merely a reflection of our own self-absorbed egotism and self-aggrandisement.

It's all ego massage of the least imaginative variety.


If i were to indulge in some fantasy and suppose some creator of this universe I might just as likely imagine him to be some underpaid wage-slave in his own dimension, who barely makes a subsistence living from igniting universes in some shabby downtown cosmic factory.

If we're going to fantasise here, the religious fantasies are all far too cosily and pathetically anthopocentric. Personally I would prefer some ignoble deity who sold soft drugs, stole the occasional car to get home in after a binge on cheap gin and wasted the little he had on the lottery aka the gullibility tax .....were i to go to the bother of imagining one in the first place.

Based on shitty generalizations. Not worth reading.

I would think most of the deities were not omnipotent/scient, up until the mono-god most seemed to control an aspect of nature like rivers or childbirth, for example.
Although there was often an All-Father or King of the Gods, so I'm not sure where that leaves my thoughts.. ho hum

Why is it, one asks oneself, that all religious gods tend to be of the omniscient, omnipotent variety?

They're not. Only a tiny minority are, after some people took the "my god is bigger than your god" game a little too far.

There are plenty of non-omnipotent, drunkard, mischievous, asshole Gods out there in the junkyard of theistic ideas. Some probably 'alive' even today, but most are 'dead' by now. Gods seem to reflect the culture they 'grow up in', and some grow out of folklore. The longer lived Gods sometimes change over time to reflect societal changes, from being Gods of war and havoc, to Gods of peace, for instance - whatever is needed at the time.