On the Creative Power of the Human Imagination
Human beings are capable of imagining things that do not actually exist. Even young children have the ability to create imaginary things without any prompting from adults. Many humans actually earn their livelihood by creating imaginary creatures, worlds and activities. Our imaginations are capable of amazing feats of creation.
Among the things created by the human mind are supernatural beings with extraordinary powers. From comic book superheros to fantastic animals like unicorns and dragons, we do it all the time. We have also, apparently, created a large number of deities. Too many to count, really, if you venture back into the couple of million years humans and their predecessors have lived on the planet.
Many such deities appear to have disappeared from human thinking. Deities that were once credited with creation, amazing powers and all sorts of other things have passed from memory or are treated as myths today. Still, there are hundreds of deities still worshiped, held in reverence, or feared by humans in various cultures.
Typically, the deities of one culture are held by members of that culture to be the only true deities. All others are considered to be false deities. For example, one-third of the world's population professes belief in a three-part trinity of deities, including God, Jesus, and a Holy Spirit. This belief includes the belief that all other deities are false and that only belief in that trinity of deities is correct.
The remaining two-thirds of the world's population does not agree. In fact, multiple other deities are imagined to be real and authentic by much of that remaining population. Depending on the culture, one or more of those deities is believed to be the real deity or deities. Other cultures' deities are considered to be false.
So, which deities are real, and which are figments of the imagination of others? How would one know? Deities have no demonstrable existence. There is no evidence available for the reality of any of them. What could explain the multiplicity of deities among human cultures? Why cannot all-powerful deities convince all humans of their exclusiveness?
The answer is in the first paragraph of this brief essay - the human imagination. Capable of creating all manner of fantastic things, it is certainly capable of creating as many deities as are useful to cultures. Even a superfluity of deities is easily imagined. The human imagination is also capable of assigning responsibilities to deities, writing historical and prescriptive stories about those imaginary deities, as well as creating entire systems for worshiping, propitiating and revering them.
The power of the human imagination is what is beyond understanding, perhaps.
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but to think that makes us ATHEISTS 
Believers like other people to believe. "As long as you believe in something" it's all good.
Make sure your child has religion, who cares what, just get them indoctrinated, and so forth.
It's really amazing that they prefer someone who believes the opposite of them to someone without belief.
