Does it matter if man created God?

[procon]

10. The deception matters.

If man created his own gods, then acknowledging the hoax makes it much harder to exploit others and gain power over them. Once the fraud is conceded, the whole concept of religion and its cast of divine characters collapses under that revelation. What remains is reduced to nothing more than any of the other entertaining fantasies featuring tales of Santa Claus, Leprechauns, or the panoply of Halloween monsters,

On the other hand, the fabled God created man mythology provides the built in pretense of supreme authority to justify and perpetuate the deception of religion while conveniently granting awesome powers to the self proclaimed pitchmen who deceive masses of people for personal advantage.