Why Do People Need Religion?

[Mudhammam]

The fear of death is probably one of the biggest reasons. It's something that no amount of technology can take away from us. Death is as inevitable for humans today as it was a hundred thousand years ago.

Indeed, one of the themes of the Garden of Eden myth is mankind's realization of their finitude, and a sense that we, who have a vague conception of eternity, are somehow fallen from that more perfect condition. It is the paradox of our being in a sort of intermediate state between the brutes who only gaze downward at the earth and those limitless marvels of the heavens which we have the ability to touch by fixing our eyes and minds on the realms above.