Religion is a state of mind in which there is an awareness of all the conflicts of human existence, which brings order in our daily life. God is the invention of thought. God is put together through our despairs, fears and anxieties. When you worship something that thought has created, it is still within the field of confusion. According to various doctrines, God has created man, but if you look at it closely and seriously, man has created God in his image. There are those who say you cannot understand God, and so they call the same principle the nameless, the timeless, the unknowable, and so on. But what is important is that we want security. We demand not only outward security, which is natural, healthy and necessary, but also we demand psychological, inner security in our relationships with others. Perhaps there is no security in another, and so we demand security beyond all human relationship. So we invent, put together the idea that there is an entity, a father figure or mother figure who will look after us, sustain us, protect us in our troubles, miseries and depression. So we pray to that entity that thought has created. We are back in the same field, because thought has created this super-entity and created confusion, misery, depression, sorrow, anxiety, and so on. The content of our consciousness is put together by thought, with its belief, fears, rituals and so on. So thought is responsible for fear, for prayer, for that supreme make-believe God. Thought is the thread through all this, and it is necessary, if we want to go into it deeply, to understand the nature of thinking.