Lost Gods

'God is humanity’s response to a legacy of evolutionary discontent. The faculty of conceptual thought that has raised homo sapiens above other forms of animal life was achieved only at the cost of a divided & tormented mind. The human response to that awful burden of self-determination was to create god & to still self-doubt in the solace of religion.' (p. 1, edited)
Allegro explained that god was the answer to humanity’s insufficiency. Humans created god to set in stone their explanations, lend conviction to their judgments & reassure themselves that there was a reason for everything.
Lost Gods looks at the ideas & cults of the ancient gods thru age-old myths & the work of archeologists & anthropologists. It shows how primeval beliefs have persisted into modern theological thought & recur as common elements in widely disparate cults & philosophies, tho differences between them can lead to destructive enmity.