why is the world so infatuated with god and religion?

[StevenC]

"but if a living dance upon dead minds
why,it is love;but at the earliest spear
of sun perfectly should disappear
moon's utmost magic,or stones speak or one
name control more incredible splendor than
our merely universe, love's also there:
and being here imprisoned,tortured here
love everywhere exploding maims and blinds
(but surely does not forget,perish, sleep
cannot be photographed,measured;disdains
the trivial labelling of punctual brains...
-Who wields a poem huger than the grave?
from only Whom shall time no refuge keep
though all the weird worlds must be opened?
)Love"

faith divides us death unites us

 

[Icelandic]

i feel like i have an eternal soul, but why should i care?

 

[rebbyshy1]

because people need the hope for something so much more that they belive it instead of trying to make the only life they may have better for themselves and their children, and their children's children and so on.

 

[Whatm]

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[Skookum]

Must be all that "we're so lost and alone" crap.

 

[TeapotBeliever]

It's the greatest soap opera of all time

 

[HolyMartyr]

People need hope. They can't just go around believing that their (our) lives are meaningless, they want to believe there is something greater than themselves, religion is the perfect answer.

Life is short, eternity in heaven is a nice and satisfying fairytale.

 

[JARED]

It's a happy escape from the drudgery of reality.

 

[VampireJane]

Because they simply have the right to.

 

[Juan]

Probably because "God" can allegedly do anything, yet it chooses to be an underachiever on an unbelievably massive scale.