People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?