We posit one God because we need to explain the cohesion of reality - why things hang-together and don't fly apart; why there are values; why there is is structure, coordination, predictability etc.
We posit many gods because we need to explain free-will/ agency, evil, love, creativity, the possibility of change and newness.
The main religions and philosophies do a very bad job of covering both these requirements, of explaining how we can actually have "all the above".
Either they pick one, or many, God/s and ignore the need for the other...
Or else they "explain" how things work with language of such abstraction and complexity that it does not count as an explanation....
Or they try to stun and deter people from questioning by spouting mystical paradoxes.
The result? Look around... Nihilism.
People have no coherent and comprehensible explanation for why and how things are; so they have just given-up on understanding; and instead focus on getting-through each hour/ day/ year - with the maximum of pleasant and minimum of unpleasant experiences.
So; if you want to do better, you won't get off-the-peg help from religions or culture - nobody that you would trust can tell you a valid answer.
You will have to do it for yourself.
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