Why do you think man needs religion to feel safe?
600815
I'm an atheist, i think man just wanted to explain life but with the coming of science people just don't want to give up what theyv'e believed in for so long.
667670
Religion is often used as a tool to mantain fear and the statu quo. It's not coincidence that the USA has both such a limited diversity of political ideas and such a high-degree of religious fanatism.
397178
:) Good question!\nLet us put it this way.... without religion, people do what they want to do (if you keep aside law for a minute). With religion, people still do what they want to do, but feel guilty, unhappy, worried or self conscious about it.\nThis is because it is religion that classified things into good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable, noble and ignoble! \nNow too, most of us do what pleases us, but end up feeling good or bad, because that is all we learnt from religion!
472525
Cause humans are mostly insecure and conformistic.\nThey thus need an easy way out of their dilemmas as well as the relief of afterlife and the feeling of low responsibility adhered by religions(even if their dogma claims otherwise).\nMoreover there is a natural tendency in humans to belong in groups. A strongly structured group requires an opposing group. Religious groups provide both these features in abundance.
445119
The need for the comfort found in beliefs.
189321
When religions lack credibility, they use force to maintain their structure.  It is the same with many cults.\n\nIf a religion had credibility, it wouldn't be threatened by defectors or nonconformists.  A person's faith is between himself and God.  It is God's business so God should tend to it.  But if your religion lacks any credible god, you have to tend to it yourself, don't you?
587193
There's no need to.  It doesn't make any difference, since there's no such thing as god, so why bother?\n\nI guess if you're scared of dying, it could provide some false security that you'll go to heaven in an afterlife.  For insecure people, it might do them some psychological good.  Trouble is, once they "get religion" they get all pushy, self-righteous, and start putting down anyone who doesn't believe as they do...
1084553
I think religion today  is a matter of comfort. Being seen, being in a community, comfort for the after-life.\n\nReligion was very useful 1000 years ago to keep people down, to control and earn power.\n\nThis was very brief tho.
666269
Why would a person need a text or tradition to know right from wrong? The golden rule is extant for all of us. Don't do to other what you wouldn't want done to you. Be fair, honest and care for your fellow man. All these things are pretty much universal but sadly overlooked, even by religionists.
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religion is important for people to feel that they belong and to have meaning in their lives.  most can't live their life to just enjoy it, but need a purpose to it and need something to follow.\n\nbut can you imagine a world without religion, no religion could be its own religion.  everyone would believe the same.  nobody would feel superior over another and treat others like inferiors.  nobody would be battling and killing one another because of beliefs.  \n\ni don't know, maybe it would be a better world with everyone having the same understanding of life.  people would treat one another better and see each other as equals.  interesting concept, but this will never happen - that's for sure.
60239
I think religion is one of those "necessary evils".  I think many many wars could have been avoided without religion, but then the vast majority of people would not have any source of power to turn to in times of need.
836680
Yes and no.\n\nSome people need religion more than others. Religion is a guidance to how one should behave in public and private. It teaches people how to be fair, how to love, how to think when one does not have parents who teaches him/her. Religion is a spring broad, a tool, but it should not be the answer to all problems. Religion teaches morals. It does not specifically help you live your life. It teaches shame, humility and dos and don'ts, but how you live is up to your interpretation.\n\nWhen someone takes religion to an extreme, that's when trouble happens. This is when the world is not at a better place due to religion.\n\nYou will also have the opposite extreme or no religion, no morals, and that's no okay either. Crimes will take place all over, no one would feel safe. It will be survival of the fittest. The law is built on ethical and moral beliefs. If it were not for religion, who would it be to judge that an ax murderer will get life or get off scott free?\n\nTo answer your question, and it is a good one that you are asking, If religion were never to have existed, we may still have ethics and moral, because they are part of religion, but at the same time, no religious people are still ethical and have their own set of morals that they live by (common sense and logic).\n\nAs for now, we do live in a society that has religion and I don't feel that we are in a better place, because at the moment, the other side of the world is fighting over religion and who has the right religion or the better religion. Why can't we all just get along?
609447
Many people think that god is a psychological invention by humans.  Like self-esteem, it serves a purpose for survival.  Unlike other living beings, we have the ability to observe and reflect.  We can understand some basic phenomenom of our world, but we are often confronted with things that we cannot understand.  With our natural need to feel in control of our world (which is part of our survival drive), facing something that we cannot control or understand leaves us psychologically vulnerable and stressed.  So early man created the gods.  The gods were beings who we could control (through prayer and sacrifices), who would control the unknowns in our lives.  This helped alleviate the anxieties and fears we were feeling.  Every culture on the planet throughout history created a system of gods that controlled the unknowable aspects of life.\n\nAs time has progressed, we have learned quite a bit about our world.  We understand what causes the weather to change, and how diseases occur, etc.  That has taken a lot of the steam out of the world of religion.  It's no coincidence that Christianity is suffering such a demise these days.  But it's not from a lack of morality in mankind.  It's because education has made us less frightened about the unknown.\n\nSo in short, if no one believed in God, then it would no longer exist.
993228
People feel safe in their hearts thinking that their God will save them,because when you live in a world with violence, corruption, and pain the people with faith still feel safe inside in their mind. WHY QUESTION THEM LET THEM BE they are not hurting anyone, They are probably more sane then other people because they know who they are inside.
903505
Ecclesiastes 12:13\nLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
962747
Because they want to rule with fear. They appel to the weakness in people who are scared of making their own decisions and therefore prefer to follow orders. But I guess this is only one of many reasons. I myself don't follow any dogmatic religion, but like to find out more about them.
1158608
my religion strengthens me and guides me through my daily life. it gives comfort and it allows for me to do the right thing when i really, really want to do the wrong thing.