content: Abraham  ...who also didn't exist. The issue isn't a specific person who just so happened to have all this amazing power. The issue is the human psyche - instincts which make us susceptible to these ideas, regardless of who is speaking them. We are intensely tribal - so much so that we form tribes around things like football teams, and beat people who support another team, and riot when our tribe wins. How much easier is it to convince us to form tribes around eternal life and almighty-powerful beings. We understand the world through our internal pattern-matching hardware because it's very old and very highly evolved, even though it's often wrong - because the alternative way of understanding the world, this process called science, is comparatively new and has so far not (apparently) been enough of a selective advantage to override the wetware. This makes us cling to superstition despite all evidence.  Those are the problems. At this point, they're like bugs. If you kill off one hacker that has exploited the bug, another will just pop up.