Yes, religion is a way for simple human brains to try and understand the immense complexity of existance. It is a banal series of false facts that have accumulated in the minds of you poor people for the last few million years. And probably before that.
Would you spend eternity (if you lived forever) watching a piece of carpet fluff under a microscope? Because that is effectively what this 'God' person is doing. he must be quite dissordered.
'all we can do is determine how best to help people?' Why is this? All we actually do do is determine how best to blow each other up. And i don't see God interfearing. So that's a plus then: God obviously has a sense of humor. Also. I don't see god blasting be to smitherines with a convenient lightning bolt. Oh i know what you're going to say: 'God has his own ways of doing things.' Well that's a very good excuse that has been used be people for ages. My life is utter bliss. I am increadably cinical. I am a master-mind - excluding spelling and foreign languages. But hey; if i need to talk to some friench bussiness man, he can learn english! I am a being that is almost non-human in nature. 'God' and all other forms of religion are ways to controll poor fools why have to have everything explained to them, and never try to figure things out for themselves. Question and explore my dear simple fool. Question and explore. Then you will realise that Religion is actually total nonsensical garbage and very amusing to people like me, who love to observe the movements and actions of lesser beings. In a sence i am rather like God!
I can tell that you are, tecknically, a fairly intellegent person. But in terms of sence and the actual essense of your being, you are an idiot. Goodbye.