Having faith, to me, is like turning on a radio. The waves are out there, but you absolutely cannot hear them until you turn the receiver on. So if you think there’s nothing there, for you, there isn’t. But the minute you turn the receiver on, you tap into a power I can’t explain. Call it The Force if you want to.

That author is anthropomorphizing the diety concept; casting it in the image of man; setting up a ‘straw man’ argument, and then defeating it.

Only MAN says the power is like man. We do that so we can TRY to understand it. Try is all we can do. It is like a mite trying to understand a person. Can’t be done. Occasionally throughout history there have been exemplary lives which claim to point the way to–whatever it is we should look up to.

There is just as much badness in human nature as goodness. Yin and Yang, so to speak. That is why anything–and everything–that brings out and emphasizes the good side, helps.