All the gods who have ever owned the hearts and enslaved the minds of billions have asked for that which they do not need
Neither Christ nor his Father enslave anyone's mind, or ask for anything that is not of benefit to US... in regard to our loving and showing mercy to one another. But I do hear you that many 'gods' (and men) have done as you describe.
revealed nothing beyond the science of the day
Christ and his Father have... but unless science corroborates it, you and others like you will not buy it. For some/many... science has to say it FIRST, or it is not 'real'.
, made their most important message identical to the stories of children,
Well, some children's stories have the most important messages. Messages we seem to forget as adults. (do as I say, not as i do... sort of thing)
chosen an elect voice hearing, vision seeing, faith feeling elite to lead
Well, you can't really speak to someone who will not hear or see or exercise faith in you, can you? As to leading... there is no one who leads, other than Christ... if only people would listen to HIM.
and have faded with the culture that created them.
Might say something about those 'gods' then, though I do not disagree that many 'gods' have been created by man, in man's image.
History , in this regard, teaches nothing to the dupes who fall for it time and again.
History teaches nothing to a lot of people who refuse to look at the patterns found within it. Because each generation (generally speaking) tends to think that it is different and somehow better/smarter/etc than the ones that came before. You'd think we'd have learned the folly in THAT, at least ;)
A real god who was interested in humans would act differently to all human imagined gods
You would thinks so... though I imagine it depends upon what a human imagined up.
, it would - as all rational beings do - teach the futility and danger of faith.
Funny how you can claim to know something like this. Would that not be you making god up in your image?
(Besides, you do not have the same definition of faith as has been given to us by Christ and God. Faith is based on evidence; it is not blind)
No all powerful god wishing to communicate with another race would send fragmented babblings in dreams and telepathic Chinese whispers allowing that message to be further sophisticated by the prophets and mystics who play power games with everyone else. A real god's existence would not be in doubt and certainly wouldn't need to be proven or testified of on Internet forums or street corner soap boxes.
A read God's existence is not in doubt... except by some people who doubt. What people think about something in no way alters the reality/truth of something.
Peace,
tammy