Those THINKERS who cannot BELIEVE in any gods often assert that the love of HUMANITYWOULD be in itself SUFFICIENT for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
Being somebody who's LIKE a THEATER geek that I am, I can just go right BACK to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were WRITING about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help PEOPLE get what they want.
I see myself as a SPIRITUAL person, but I don't think ANYONE should claim proof of a god. No one can PROVE it. That's why I don't claim to know WHETHER there are one, MANY or no gods.