Why do we need god?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Apparently we have bunch of people here who need god.
Why do we need god?
Nobody can prove he exists. He does not stop murders, illnesses and bullets.
People still suffer.
People still die.
Nobody can see him except fr0d0.
Why do we need such a god? For what?

When I had my own crisis a few years ago and became 'god-curious' for some time, I believe what it all boiled down to in the end, when all the layers of the onion had been peeled away so to speak, was my fear of mortality.
I read a fascinating interview with a well known psychologist in a Swedish journal some time ago.
(Interestingly, this journal is published by the Swedish church)
What he was saying, basically, is that although we are able to grasp the concept of mortality on an intellectual level, our sub-conscious minds are utterly unable accept death, because it means they are destroyed. The sub-conscious, he argued, is unable to comprehend its own annihilation. According to him near death experiences, which are closely linked to the 'god experience' are ways for the brain to sort of ease the psyche into nothingness. Spiritual endorfins?
I've sometimes felt that psychology is kind of quasi, but I really like this line of reasoning.

Seems like a pretty fair stab at it if I'm honest. But then again, I'm no psychologist. But a fear of death/mortality seems a fair conclusion. After all, it's the ultimate topic to which almost all religions are based.