God As a Symptom of Being Social Creatures

So I was thinking about how since religion is so pervasive in humanity, it's probably linked to something evolutionarily beneficial. One of the most beneficial characteristics of humans is how social we are and a lot of being social comes from relating to other people (or things). So the best way to relate to things is to see ourselves in them, this is why we (humans) have a tendency to anthropomorphize things. We create rich, human-like personalities for animals, we say that computers "hate us" when they don't work the way we went, when something lucky happens we attribute that to the good will of Lady Luck (all with varying degrees of seriousness, but still examples of anthropomorphizing).

Now, here is where man creates god. Things that we perceive to be "less than us" we humanize in the image of children or beings that need our care but care for us because of it. Things that we see as more powerful than us (forces of nature, the planet, mountains) we humanize as parents (god the father, mother earth, etc) because parents are forever an archetype of benevolent beings that know more than we can hope to understand. Because humans are pretty clever animals we are able to anthropomorphize abstract concepts so that we can relate to them.

God "exists" for the same reason that people dress their dogs up in sweaters, which as most dogs will tell you is proof alone that there is no god.