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There is a big difference between "inspired by God" and "written in heaven". One allows for the human creative element, the other doesn't.
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But both are fantasy.
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You haven't named any books or religions yet.
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There are no books that were inspired or written by god.
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Regarding religion as being made up by humans:
1.Humans cannot create outside that which is experienced. Impossible. A God without a biggining or end - eternal - is a concept totally outside the human experience (as we have a beggining), and is so incomprehendible that humans could not have created it.
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It's called imagination. I've never experienced a wizard in a pointy hat shooting fireballs out of his finger tips before, but I can easily imagine that scenario. We as humans who have a definate beginning and end (we all die right?), so why shouldn't we want to believe in eternal life? That would be great. That means we no longer are meaningless specs of life doomed to some day die. We can pretend that we live forever in heaven or nirvana or whatever makes us feel good about ourselves. Anyway, your argument makes no sense. Just because we can't comprehend the infinity of time does not automatically mean that there is a god figure. We can't see into the past nor the future, so why not make believe there is a god that has existed for all time? It doesn't take a god to make one up.
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2.Religions seek to curb the destructive elements of human nature.
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So they act like a set of morals? What's the point? You can be a moral person without practicing a religion.