What would be the implications for humanity if God didn't exist?

Would there even be a humanity to talk about, if God is the source and beginning of all life? Or are we really asking about the God we have created- not the loving one, but the selfish one, the one bent to human desires?

Perhaps the original idea of God was simple: to acknowledge that there are things beyond us. That much of what happens around us is not our own doing. Yes, we make choices, and those choices have consequences. But there is also mystery- our very existence being the greatest of them

God, in this sense, was a way of bowing to the unknown, of recognizing limits.

But somewhere along the way, we reshaped God into a tool for selfish ends.

A God invoked to justify destruction in the name of purpose.

A God used to enforce cultures and beliefs that mock the love that must have been the basis of creation.

A God who excuses hoarding, killing, and indifference, even when the earth itself seems designed for sharing- regions supplying complementary foods at similar times, as if to remind us interdependence.

If this God did not exist, humanity might be better off.