Inventing God

I
have a friend who washes windows for a living.  I don't know what he used
to do.  According to him he raised horses, made a lot of money, owned
everything he wanted and drank heavily.  He more or less stumbled into
Jesus through an introduction from another friend of mine, an Adventist
pastor.  Now he and Jesus are tight, he's been sober for five or six
years, and he washes windows for a living.  But I digress.

We
got to talking the other day, and he wondered what we would do if we didn't have
God.  Together we decided that we would have to invent a god, which, of
course, is precisely what people do all the time.  I think the best
inventors of god are atheists.  They are very creative in inventing the
god in whom they do not believe.  Sometimes they stitch together a god out
of bits and pieces of scriptural remnants with a trim of Greek, Egyptian or
Nordic myth for decoration.  Sometimes they invent a god out of the whole
cloth of fertile imaginations.  In either case credit is due for creativity. 

By
the way, accolades for creativity do not accrue to would be atheists whose only
talent is caustic sarcasm.  That takes very little creativity. 
Consider some of my own writing as a case in point.  But again I digress.