But aren't concepts of the self and god a reflection of each other?
So a belief in a god has tended to include the idea of a soul as self right up to Descartes' dualism.
Freud introduced his tripartite structure of the mind/self and various schools of psychology, from behaviourism to psycho-pharmacology, have taken various views and perspectives, on what amounts to the self.
If, as some claim, god is a projection of human qualities (good and bad), which is evidenced by the changing view of god over the ages, can't we say that there seems to be a great deal of equivalency, between our vision of god and our concept of self?
Here we go.....I feel so out of my depth.