Modernity killed God
Nietzsche's declaration of “God is dead” and its connection to modernity has only rung truer in the 21st century. Through the creation of organizational structures to fulfill the role of miracles and its abundance of resources, was when God has truly died.
Instead of looking to God when there’s drought, you rely on your government and the built-in infrastructure to transport water. Through modernization, humanity measures problems and solutions through predictable contingencies with no room for chance— no opportunity for divine intervention to fill in the blanks.
Rapid advances in technology have led us to believe that we are “above” or separate from the Earth that any error that occurs needs to be quantifiable and controllable.
God is now used to create community and by extension political opportunity, as it is no longer needed in a society with human-solved issues like disease or famine. The only place god can be found is with the internal, where personal struggle cannot be solved with government infrastructures. The faith found in praying for good weather is not as widespread compared to the internal faith found after a loved one has died.
Humanization and Divinity
Because Religion is a reflection of humanity, we assume God is human. We assume God, (despite being the fabric of the universe) relies on socialization and is a being that can be swayed. As an extension of our humanization towards nonliving objects, it has in turn made us believe that material objects, irregular events found with chance, and false patterns connotated with these objects, all connect to the divine. God is now an immaterial humanized object, where we use the material as an extension of the non-material phenomena of divinity we experience in our head. Only a human god would care for our suffering, and it functions on our terms as a king.
Creation is a reflection of innate human instinct, where the necessity of socialization in an empty universe, one creates a world to respond to. Where someone has the ability to create objects that are autonomous, rebel, obey, and respond. Any other factors outside of connecting to objects from an assumed human god are unknowable and not considered. What differs humans from the divine is humanity’s creations being limited, and done in a state of restriction in knowledge or physical incapability.
Creative innovation is a socially agreed upon notion as the result of an artist's unique (but ultimately not original) experience channelled through the subconscious and material limitation.
At the same time however, Godhood is the result of humanity attempting to grapple at a singular and somehow definable identity. Achieving mass influence means simplifying one's self in order to become a tool of grace or violence. One’s power has become so widespread it simply becomes an unnegotiable phenomena that people must evade, tolerate, but not outwardly defy.