Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World?

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To address the OP, I believe religion, and any other institution, is a collective attempt to reinforce a tribalism mentality to restrict our world view into something understandable and manageable for coping with life. That is essentially how we are build. The very act of "growing up" is putting restrictions on the unfettered imagination and chaos of childhood into something functional and manageable for one's self. Much in the same way we form intentional social structures (like religion or politics) to restrict things like freedom, critical thinking and inclusiveness so we can operate at an improved level of safeness or sameness in our day-to-day.