It's not about curiosity (the lowest form of Interest?)
OK OK, I suppose.. look far enough and there IS a person who cares about the little dragon-looking denizens who inhabit eyebrow hairs (Book: "Life on Man")

We (say we) 'Love' our pets. And there are endless tales from antiquity - suggesting not only that We Do - but, which document that there are occasional events of unarguable reciprocity, eg The (UK) dog who spent rest of his life mourning, atop grave of master, fed by locals, etc.

So, when we invent our Gods - we naturally extrapolate from (the closest we ever get to?) authentic-Experience of the ineffable. We Hope that they Like their little iggerant buggers, too.
(Little 'Hope' required, actually: we design-in the feature set, in committees.)



Still no excuse for the warped Puritan self-flagellation mindset, of course - one sees that there are Microsoft-grade religions, too.. Lots of buggers will buy-in to about anything offered by a sufficiently set-jawed Authority, possessed of a nicely type-set manual - we see.