Why does man need to create religion?

[Donray]

Both Homo Neanderthal and Homo sapiens demonstrated religious beliefs tens of thousands of years before man created the Jewish religion that Christians and Muslims took over as their own. Why did the homo species feel the need to have religion?

People are Superstitious
People from the beginning of their existence seem to be very superstitious. People feel they need to ware their special underwear to a baseball game for there team to win. They need to talk with gods to get rain or stop bad weather. A religion depends heavily of superstitions.

People are Anthropomorphism
People talk to inanimate object like computer, etc. Have you ever talked out loud “where did I put my keys?� So why not talk to gods or mother earth? What about talking to the weather to ask for rain. Religions support this talking to non-existing things.

Need for Purpose
We seem to have a natural ability to see purposes for things. We want to know what our purpose in life is. Religion can help answer this question. We need to have a purpose for disease and religion answers that question. The Christians blame Eve for starting all the bad things

Belief in Justice
People simply hate to see wrongdoing unpunished and it’s a common factor in religions that there’s a *lot* of punishment going on. So, the invention of heaven and hell in religions.

Hope of Afterlife
The other side of the belief in justice; when someone dies, one of the stages of grieving that people go through is anger—it just seems so wrong, so unfair that someone we love is gone. Who would not like it to be true that we’ll see them again?

It Brings us Together
Humans are social animal and feel the need to be with others. Religion fills the need the need to be like others and be liked by others. Religious belief brings people together—or more precisely, that it allows lots of people to live together without killing each other. Religion gives us a set of common beliefs. One interesting point about the theory is that it doesn’t matter what the religious beliefs are, but it is important that everyone in the community believes the same thing. That may explain some of the bizarre beliefs in religions.

Are there other reason man needed to create religion?

[mgb]

Both Homo Neanderthal and Homo sapiens demonstrated religious beliefs tens of thousands of years before man created the Jewish religion that Christians and Muslims took over as their own. Why did the homo species feel the need to have religion?

Perhaps because they feel a deep intuition that there is more to the world than meets the eye: religion evolves, just as science does.

People are Superstitious

Superstition and religion are not the same thing. Even when people have religion they are superstitious about it.

Need for Purpose

Mankind has a need for purpose because they sense the need to fulfil spiritual needs.

Belief in Justice

Why do people hate wrongdoing? Because there is something sacred that they aspire towards.

Hope of Afterlife

This is psychoanalysis. You can make up psychoanalytic theories all day long! If we are intuitively aware that there is something more than the physical world of illusion, belief in the afterlife is natural.

It Brings us Together

Yes, unity is stronger than dissolution. It is natural to desire it because it is a fundamental principle of political, physical and spiritual existence; there is even a truism; Two heads are better than one. Evil is egoism and separateness, all good is united, this is why good is stronger than evil.