Religion : Minkind's Security Blanket

The concept of "God" is just an easy approach to the unsolved mysteries and theories of the universe. There is too much unknown about this universe and existance in general for one to rationally hold that God has made humans in His image and differentiates us from all other forms of life. In reality, humans simply have a greater ability to make complex associations, and many people confuse this for some sort of divine consciousness …showed first 75 words of 482 total…

…showed last 75 words of 482 total…not fully explained. Humans are happier with a religious explanation because it rests in the idea of a Supreme Being that people are afraid of, and feel secure in, like a child is to a parent. It is important to understand that religious ideas are given out as teachings. They are not precipitates of experience or end results of thinking, rather they are illusions, fulfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of humanity.