When God, in his infinite wisdom, created man, he did a pretty good job, although it took a while. He obviously paid special attention to our brains, that turn out to be different from all other animals.
Of particular note is the amazing ability of humans to ask the question “why?”, and that is where the trouble began.
We had to know why the sun is orange and hot, why the wind blows, why flowers bloom, thunder rocks our souls, etc. And the wise men of their day set out to find answers. At first they assigned names to all these events and attributed the events to things they call “gods” with all kinds of Greek sounding names.
Then science came along during the enlightenment and started finding explanations for many of these unnerving mysteries, and we felt better and dropped many of the god words.
But in his wisdom the real God had played a trick on us. He gave humans a brain that could not even conceive of the answers to certain questions…no matter how smart they were, even in the age of reason, and enlightenment. Even in the age of Einstein.
What is infinity? What happens after death? Do we really have a soul? Why do bad things happen to good people?
As it was planned by The Infinite himself, we can never know these answers as hard as we try. Thus, for a majority of American humans there continues to be an immense need for a God on whose shoulders we rest the unknowable.
And of course, He would have it no other way. 
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