ground begins to shake. He walks outside his hut and sees lava blowing out the top of the volcano. He realizes that shoring up his hut and comforting his wife and children won’t help. Since there seems to be no way out, he resorts to looking for a supernatural being to save him from the terror of nature. Another reason for inventing God, Freud claimed, is our fear of relationships. Because people often feel used by others, Freud assumed it was natural to conjure up a divine umpire—a cosmic God with