The Native Americans of the USA called it the great Spirit!. Today we know a bit more about the sciences. But with NO prompting from anyone those early peoples created a being in their minds that supersceded themselves. It is that primitive thinking that you nor "I" can totally defeat, that thinking will continuously reoccur without prompting in some insecure individuals. Then such like thinking individuals, will gather a circle of individuals together into groups, or tribes just as they do today and in all of human history. Humans are herd critters, there are always some who do not fit in that herd mold aethiests and agnostics.
In the UK there is no heard thing. Less than 4% regularly attend a church. Those are mostly coffin dodgers and immigrants. There are less and less every generation. I don't think I know ANY religous people at all, that are English and under 70. Its pretty much over here. The fact that we are not brainwashed when young, (as in the US), means we never really think that way. The adults don't let youngsters think about "great spirits" or other woo, and instead explain why that's a dead end. Theres no mystery to fill, the gaps are now tiny, and no brainwashing is done to us to fill it. School, physics, logic, etc means we wouldn't be able to think that way anyway. Because it contradicts the known, testable, logical reality. If it doesn't show up with the scientific method then its wrong.
They do that in the US, or in your paragraph above, in ignorance of how to think, to use logic. And because its "taught" by parents even if subconsciously. And its room to grow due to not under standing the real mechanism behind everything. Once that is known, it rules out magic. If that is taught from an early age it leaves no room for any woo woo or magical thinking. My world view is now this way because anything else simply isn't logical. And that isn't just a mildly convinced opinion, its been ruled out absolutely and completely 100% because my logic wont allow me to have a contradiction or un-testable belief in my head. The fact that I was brought up this way, and my parents were not religious, and didn't damage my brain makes it impossible to see spirits, gods, magic, or any kind of woo at all. Other than as craziness. The whole world could be this way too.
