Creating God in our Image

While watching a video on the analysis of the core philosophy behind the show, Mr. Robot, I happened upon an interesting thesis posed by Ledwig Feuerbach, an atheist philosopher of the 19th century whose work influenced that of Karl Marx. Feuerbach suggests that we created God and imbued him with our highest principles: love, justice, wisdom, etc. But over time we as a species forgot that we created God; we then looked at him and thought we are so similar to God that he must have created US in HIS image, therefore, inverting our original relationship with him. I found this to be a very interesting theory because looking at God from the perspective of a religious practitioner, one can see a being with qualities so supreme they are unattainable by the common man. God has infinite knowledge, an unbending sense of justice, and wholehearted love for all his children. But like Man, God has also been shown to be jealous, wrathful, and even vengeful. In this light, God represents the ideal state of Man with his inevitable conditions instead of Man as an offshoot of God.