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IS RELIGION AN INVENTION OF MAN? If man were to "create" a religion, it would stand to reason that such a religion would please the necessary nature of man. If a religion existed that was entirely opposing man's essential nature, it would also stand to reason that such a religion would not be the creation of man, but be a true exposure from God. The basic characteristics of the nature of man are selfishness, superiority, self-centered, arrogant, self-interested, and self, self, self, form the character of man's essential environment. Man is naturally pleasure seeking even at the expense of others. Because of his capability to reason, man comes to the understanding that, with out the existence of some "being" superior to himself, death would be the end of man's life. As a result, it is in man's pleasure-seeking interest to seek out such a being. If man cannot discover God on his own man will "create" a god or gods to please his need for self-protection after passing away. Man will not discover God unless God decides to expose himself to man. In this lies the disagreement used by atheists in trying to refuse the existence of God by maintaining that God is just the invention of man's imagination. Nevertheless, it is unthin