Don’t count on it …

… God as Human Projection? - by William F. Vallicella.

God cannot be a human projection. This follows directly from what we mean by 'God' and what we mean by 'projection.' By 'God' we mean a being whose existence does not depend on the existence of anything else.  That is not all we mean by 'God,' but it is an essential part of what we mean. So if God exists, he exists in splendid independence of humans and their wants and needs. By 'projection' we mean either a projecting or that which is projected in a projecting. (‘Projection’ is an example of process-product ambiguity.) Either way a projection cannot exist without a projector. It follows that God cannot be a human projection.  We know this by sheer analysis of the terms 'God' and 'projection.' For nothing that is a projection could satisfy the concept God. Again: if God exists, then he exists independently of anything else that exists. The Latin word for this divine attribute is aseitas. In plain Anglo-Saxon, ‘aseity’ means in-itself-ness