Religion

There are numerous religion, all with a different style of rituals. Why? Humanity fears death and the pain of the unpredictable. Living on a planet rarely understood, people created interpretations of why things happened. The brain is a wonderful story telling instrument. Just check out your dreams. They are so creative. This brain contrives to explain the unexplainable, is driven to the security of beliefs that give an afterlife, a structure to the vagaries of every day living. Whence comes religion. Religion is ubiquitous because people's worries are ubiquitous. Religion is the solution to mortality, illness, morality, social discord and disintegration, uncertainty. There are many religions because there are many cultures, many ways of dealing with daily life. Some of these religions are designed to make the participant feel that only their view is correct. The other religions are wrong. This is the sense of entitlement and specialness each person craves. When the craving is too intense, the religious person tries to dominate or eliminate the other religious person with a different view. The result is the religious war. Religion may be essential to humanities living, but it is always a contrived view.