What is God? Most of us think that God is a superior version of ourselves, a human being with supernatural powers. People strive to know God by attributing to him traits of human nature, emotions and desires, not only positive, but also negative. The famous religious scholar and deeply religious person Reza Aslan traces the history of mankind through the prism of the perception of the image of God and shows that in one form or another such a projection is characteristic of absolutely all religions. Exploring the ideas of primitive people, the worldviews of the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks, Romans, Indians and Persians, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, he comes to the conclusion that the desire to humanize the divine in turn leads to the deification of the human and that the time has come reconsider these beliefs. “We model religions and cultures, communities and governments, according to our human requirements, while constantly convincing ourselves that these requirements are divine. This best explains why throughout human history religion has produced both infinite good and unspeakable evil; why the same belief in the same God gives rise to love and compassion in one believer, while in another - hatred and cruelty... This book is not only a story about how we humanized God. It is also a call to stop imposing our human passions on God. Regardless of whether you believe in one God, in several gods, or not at all, it is important to remember that we created God in our own image and likeness, and not the other way around. And this truth opens the way for us to a more mature, more peaceful, primary form of spirituality." (Reza Aslan)