This kind of struck me as well when I read this.

In Arthur C. Clarke's novel The Songs of Distant Earth, one character discusses the two main concepts of God: "Alpha," the "personal" God, the one you worship on a regular basis and who keeps watch on your deeds, and "Omega," the God who created the universe, and may or may not have had anything to do with it since then. Many of the author's reasons for belief in God can be used to justify a belief in Omega, but not necessarily Alpha.

For my part, I believe that is likely that Omega exists, but not likely that Alpha exists. Further, I think that Omega set the universe in motion and has basically been sitting back and watching it run since then. However, as distinct from a belief in either Alpha or Omega, I believe that organized religion, while it may have been useful in bringing early human societies together, is now, net-net, a greater evil than good.