Just a theory

[Mister Agenda]

Let's see. To a baby, our parents are omniscient and omnipotent. In experiments, a three-year old assumes its mother knows what's in a sealed box, presumably because it can't imagine there's anything Mom can't know. Compared to an infant, an adult is godlike. A village chief is a person greater than the others who demands obedience.

Gods aren't an original concept, they're just humans, magnified and aspects of nature and culture, personified. I water my garden to make the plants grow. When it rains, a greater gardener is watering the earth. To get from a god to a God, just keep magnifying it.

Your position that we couldn't come up with the idea of gods unless there were real gods is asinine.

Again what you have posted doesn't explain anything. By what you say babies and small children invented gods and that's ridiculous. Tell me how can a three year old be a reliable source, surely you realize that they aren't reliable, right. The concept of gods would have been beyond man's capacity, all we have to do is look at inventions through the ages to see that each feed off another. You're making excuses because you have no answer to your problem of where gods came from.

GC

Sheesh, dude, babies grow up. You did not know that? This has nothing to do with reliable witnesses and everything to do with entertaining stories and believing whatever your parents tell you.

How do you think we came up with Superman? The only difference if we understand that it's made up. That you have to deny our ability to make up interesting characters to me shows that you must know on some level how extremely weak your arguments are. You certainly wouldn't be resorting to this if you could think of anything less weak.

TL;DR: It's not a problem because they're made up, not real.