(November 6, 2015 at 5:50 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: 1. Death is scary.
2. Most people's lives are boring.
3. Science is hard.
4. Fairy-tales are fun.
Hence religion.
Pretty much. Add in: wanting to believe they can control things that cannot be controlled. (Including the lucky jersey or cap or whatever ritual goes with watching your team on television.) Wanting power and control over others. (I can make it rain. I can also make the gods angry with you. Do what I say and give me money.)
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
