[The reason I have classed this post in "General Philosophy" is because it essentially aims to deal with the axiom of all philosophy, the being of thought. The notion of God is merely a vehicle used to make a point about thought. I do not believe this post belongs in the Philosophy of Religion section because it is not dealing with the formal arguments for religion, it is making a point about thought and thought is not religion.]

In the first instance, the very formation of the Phantom-Deity is itself the outcome of a thinking process, without this process there is no Phantom. The Deity is a formation of thought, it is not a concrete substance. No one denies the idea, but none can prove the substance. It is not the same when it comes to mountains and trees, there are even bones left over from the concept of Mark Twain.

The idea of God is vastly inferior to the concrete function of thought's power. The real question is why does one need God when one has thought? (Of course, the theist longs to credit his special deity with the virtue of bringing thought into being, only this is materially false, it was thought, coupled with the instability of fear, that birth God, it was not God who birthed thought).

When three doctors stand over a dying child desperately trying to save his life, are we really supposed to believe that God is in the room cheering the doctors on? "Come now, good chaps, just try a little harder, I know you can save him." This picture shatters our delusions of the concept, properly contextualizing it back to the fictitious realm of the idea.

Every qualitative invention brought into the world was brought by thought, technology is predicated on thought and technology is the key to human flourishing. When we say that thought is a power far superior to any God, we are not merely playing games with words, not merely inventing new Gods, we are referencing the concrete facts of human history. My guess is that most, if they were forced to choose, would pick technology over God, and in fact, this is precisely what the modern religious world has done.

Between the man of God and the man of thought there can be no contest, the man of God lives in the world of the man of thought. Religion has been around for thousands of years, it knew nothing of germs or particles, more importantly, it kept man groveling in the dust, clashing over petty ideals.

The bottom line is that thought is a power far superior to any concept of God, but this power is not neutral, it can be used to destroy the world or save the world. It is not merely the thinker's duty to think, but to learn how to use thought for the purpose of maximizing human quality.   

"Thinking is higher than space and time." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel