Some people are really crazy. They've bizarre idea to show their love and devotion for somebody. They make temples of their loved ones, and make them God for worshiping.
Developing world is characterized by feudal society laden with massive poverty and illiteracy where some elites want to grab power by using the people's trait of believing. People belive because there's no other option left for them. They've to believe in Karma which says that poverty and sufferings are the result of their past lives. It is an act of God. Their poverty and illiteracy make them belief, and even worship on whatever the local powerful ones tell them to do.
Moreover, those elites are the ones who have created all those idols, Temples, Mosques and Churches. Since they make it, they're the authoritative agent to the powerful creature--the God. They're close to God, they say, so that they can rule over the rest of the masses.
In an instance, cadres of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) made a temple of PM Narendra Modi in Gujrat in an attempt to prove them to be greater lover and devotee of the powerful Indian man. Those cadres build the temple of Mr. Modi so that BJP can be religiously institutionalized, and their cadres can get a permanent hold in the society. But, this shrewd man denied the temple from being built, saying that it is against the Indian tradition.
However, majority of other notable Indian spiritual orators--who have declared themselves a God--are making their temples. It is not the first time a temple was made of a person in India. There are temples of Superstars Amitabh Bachchan, Rajanikant; and politician Sonia Gandhi. Moreover, there are many temples of modern day religious orators.
Moreover, some people need God not to tighten their grip in power, but to hold them calm. They need something to hold on, to calm down, to carry on or to believe in, so that they're occupied. Besides, they also want to show other about their affiliation with the powerful one which they worship. As a result they've created God out of their mind and started worshiping.
People make God to satisfy their own need. They create God either to show them strong, keep in top hierarchy in the society they live, make them closer to power, or keep them attached to something.
