Every civilization worshiped some sort of god. Why?

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t20blunkall

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Are people just afraid to die or can people just not handle the fact that there life isn't that significant. Most science based rational people i know, don't really believe in a god. Most lost people who i know that are not that Intelligent in scientific matters or are i guess you would say have a weak personality appear to be god fanatics. Personally i don't believe in god for the many obvious reasons such as comon sense but it appears people cant take a anthropological look at religion because................................
 
I think its simply a human reaction to want to believe there is a greater power, a source somewhere which we can drool and fantasise over.
I don't really know, its just one of those things
 
it is in human nature to want answers and creating a god gives you answers and something to do (worship, build temples, sacrifice animals etc.)
 
I think it takes a lot of guts not to believe in God. I realize that many people of different faiths do not respect your right to be an atheist, but don't insult our beliefs because you are unable to rationalize them. You believe in what you see, and many people do. You shouldn't be critisized for it.
Believing in life after death and a supreme being has been a concept that has gone back through to the beginning of man's knowledge. Decartes and Arostotle spend much of their time trying to prove the existence of such. There is an experience that goes with it that you couldn't understand unless you tried. Not that I'm trying to get you to try it, just throwing the concept out there that it is an experience. Just like you would never understand what caviar tasted like until you actually tried it. You may like and you may not. People can take an anthropological look at reliegion, many people do; they dismiss it because they choose to believe otherwise. It isn't weak, it isn't a crutch, it's a belief system. Just like you believe in science because you can see it.
 
People want to believe that when they die and when their friends and family die they will be reunited.

Also, religion was created before law to help control the morality of the population. Some people WOULD just kill everyone that pissed them off. They had to have consequences, so they created spiritual "punishments" and in turn, religion was required for all early civilizations.
 
some of them created the gods to explain things that they didn't understand, such as sun gods, volcano gods, etc. i'd think that another reason is what you said, to give their lives meaning and to base their culture around.

other reasons could be in order to have some system of law (i.e. behave or the gods will punish you), or that it makes the people think that they can have influence over things such as weather and war through worship. so even when they can do nothing, they can feel like they are doing their best to improve their situation.
 
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