Traits and behavior are limited ideas and actions to which the gods cannot be bound. The god is where the human mind is affected by the supernatural and the divine, or may ultimately be in conscious contact with it. Personally, as to an aspect of oneself, socially, as to a joint aspect of oneself and others. A person chooses god but his election is jointly with others to the extent that the gods of others permit a joint aspect of oneself and others. One can will against gods entropically for self or universally, including reductionism to greater instinctive animality.
All historical gods are in at least some of their manifestations catastrophic.
Historical gods have been the outcome of persons interacting with events, and, though probably non-existent, persist in some of their earlier manifestations, so that all are partly gone and partly present. The gods of the past are to be treated as hypothetical models to avoid and imitate as they reflect upon the present and future and satisfy today's conditions of existence. Insofar as they are theotropic rather than entropic, the gods are rational and welcome, and are to be preferred. V. Religion 65. Society cannot be conceived without religion and therefore cannot hold itself together without it.