1) Human beings have tendency to approximate the unexplored knowledge to the knowledge they poses. example, try to think about some thing that you have never seen, I bet it will have some resemblance to something or other you have seen.
2) It is ultimate truth that there is n number of things yet to get scientific proof, so humans needs to paralel those happening to some thing like - some_one_is_reason stuff, so the birth of GOD. Ex., God Varuna, who is he? Rain god! Do you still believe him?
3) Fear factor, this is the factor that causes this aproximation to happen. Ex, You are put into a huge empty dark room, And you are asked to run - Believe me you cannot! you know the rooom is empty still your fears will create thousands of illusions. you can never run!
So god is an illusion created by our mind to fill in the gaps, to approximate the knowledge we have with the real.
Then I have seen few people who don't realy believe in god, but they still don't want to take risk of ignoring the possiblity of him. "what if he really existed?"
Now on to my Matrix theory:
So God does really exists, he controls us, and our fate... now is'nt this scenario some way close to that of matrix concept? Machine controlling the humans?
So if every thing is rules set by some one, a supreme being to control us, does'nt it infer that by breaking these rules we can control him? huh? If god has relationship with us thru control then, any control is just a kind of handle, who ever has upper hand controls other.
Concider a ring-master, inside the ring with his lions, may be he is in control over those lions, but till when? till the lions are brave enough! till the lions break their apprehension!
May be i sound evil, that exactly depends on your perception... neo believed in morpheus but you would have thought him as devil.
If there is really this GOD and stuff, then this world is matrix! Red Pill or Blue Pill, depends on you!
Now on to my "why ignore him?" theory:
Look! God is totaly helpless because of his state of being omnipresent. You ask him some thing, he surely listens to it, but what's the use? He is the force that stops you from getting that and he is the force willing to help you and he will that way cancel himself - simple as that. -5 + 5 = 0;
And then this, if god decided to help you then he has no other go but to help all others in the world to eradicate the bias. so if he does help allothers, you will not be happy becuase you will still feel inadequate, this phenomenon is called as inflation by economists!
I bet he decides he will not help any one. Then what is the use?