The pervasive idea of a personal God who intervenes to make life better for those he chooses is not one that is going away anytime soon, despite everything about life showing it to be a random soulless force that crushes who it will without fear or favour.
But it helps people to sleep at night, so the various iterations of the god hypothesis would stay with us till the time we get rid of our fear of the unknown, which would be never.

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