Incidentally, I'm not trying to influence your beliefs. You're entitled to believe whatever you wish as long as you cause no harm to other humans or animals and keep your beliefs to yourself. I for one believe there are fairies at the back of my garden and no one could convince me otherwise.

Nevertheless, as the plethora of man made religions go, I've always felt the old Manaechian doctrine of humans being part God and part Devil with an eternal fight for dominance by the two psyches is the best explanation of the human plight. It's a never ending struggle for mastery of our collective soul which involves intellectual heft denouncing and finally defeating bestial selfishness.