To me, if God 'exists' at all, I'd would believe it would be more of a process or a property of universal law (much like how nighthawkx says), rather than an actual, sentient ethereal being that we've dubbed god. God may be the entire universe itself, or merely an element as much as gravity is, yet often, religion tends to apply anthropomorphism to something that we know virtually nothing about. They say that god dislikes either gay people, or dislikes what they do, when god may actually be nothing more than other element in the universe and has no more opinion on homosexuality than a bar of gold does.

Is it necessary to anthromorphize the notion of god? After all, I'd suggest the fact that "dimensionality' is a human construct, the same way that the three colour system of vision is - i.e. a construct based on our perception, rather than what really may exist. "God" is the first attempt to invent science, to explain things that we didn't know the answer to. Why does the sun set and rise every day? Could a god be pulling the sun up and down for us? Why are there stars in the sky? God is looking down on us.

A god is an explanation of certain interesting phenomena. Through describing what a god is capable of, people have described and explained their own models and conceptions of the universe. God is, essentially, an early hypothesis of mankind, probably going back as far as the days of cavemen who wondered what fire was and where it came from. Gods are the unquestioned, irresistable motivations that govern certain behaviors of human beings, the things we obey when we would otherwise refuse or ignore other people. Gods are denatured token parents and occasionally elder siblings of authority, and a source of comfort to many. Theys are the easy way out or what people believe to be the final, unignorable threat of death, and are the burden bearers in our lives, the ever elusive scapegoats that too many people pass the flack to when they need a higher authority to help accomplish their goals.

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