Aliens!

Was watching this programme on TV which was introducing the idea that aliens had visited our ancestors and continue influencing modern culture through what we misinterpret as divine inspiration.

The host then went on to claim that Moses and the Israelites were visited by aliens which gave them the Law. I sniggered at that thought, then paused for a while.

'That must have been one heck of a consistent alien!'

Then it dawned on me. They taken God, kept his attributes, and gave him a make over. Now they don't have to worship him as he wants us to, but can pin anything on him. The Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Machu Pichu, Easter Island, Joan of Arc, Mohammed, Paul, Atlantis...