People seek power, and God can be thought of as the highest form of power. Religion empowers some people by building a relationship between them and the supreme

People seek power, and God can be thought of as the highest form of power. Religion empowers some people by building a relationship between them and the supreme power of God. It also offers other empowering benefits like community, tradition and sense of purpose. But our will to power can be satisfied in many ways, and the opportunities for pursuing power have increased over time. Organized religion is being out-competed by alternative sources of satisfaction of the will to power.