Following the discovery of this post, I did a little digging into this guy. I listened to a whole 2 and a half lecture by him. He doesn't mean a literal omnipot

Following the discovery of this post, I did a little digging into this guy. I listened to a whole 2 and a half lecture by him. He doesn't mean a literal omnipotent quasi mythical unprovable creature. He even says something like "a clever thirteen year old boy would know that that's rubbish." By god, he means a system of ranking values. His argument is that religion is a kind of emergent, distributed evolutionary policy learning strategy that supervenes (if you will) from biological origins. In that sense, heaven is that which delays gratification for greater selection benefit, and hell is that eternal possibility of worsening one's situation. It's an interesting concept.