A new study finds that people project their personal beliefs upon the god they worship. An egocentric approach to devotion is probably to be expected. Even those of us who love to argue usually seek some sort of harmony when it comes to prayer. Yankees fans presumably don’t pray to a Red Sox god.

What I do wonder, which this study doesn’t capture, is if polytheistic religions (with more than one god) have the same issues or could they perhaps allow for more complexity. Also, if people are created in god’s image, maybe a there is an aspect of a macro-god that validates even our craziest contradictions.