lord and sovereign

As of now, I am the only member of the Brookline i-neighborhood, and thus am, at last, lord and sovereign.

Brookline i-neighborhood

I was struck by how much this is religious language. It's from a non-religious person. But it makes me think of how much we anthropomorphize God. We make the ineffible something we know and understand. How much of this comes from and is justified by our being made "in God's image"?