The creator always superior to the creation?

[Rick O'Shez]

Most religions I'm aware of teach that the Creator is a higher, better or morally superior being compared to what he/she/it has created. However I've rarely seen any real explanations for why this is the case. Couldn't he (usually it's a he) create them as his equals? Is there something in the act of creating itself that gives him the right to this status?

Maybe God is a control freak.

 

[Thanda]

This is the greatest argument ever against religion. An entity that created everything is not worthy of our worship. He would be so far above such a triviality as to make it meaningless, as meaningless as a bacteria on my skin worshiping me. Religion is merely a reflection of man's hubris. Is an entity that created everything greater than me? You bet. Would such an entity give a fat rat's **** that I worshiped him? Beyond my capacity to know, but the odds would be so great against it to make the possibility non existent.

Such faulty logic. Did you create the bacteria?

I'm a programmer and I know how interested programmers are in the smallest details of their code, often going back to refine and tune it over time.