Do some people need religion?

[Minimalist]

A number of people, however, see religion as a positive force in society

More are simply incapable of facing a reality where they don't think they are being watched by their invisible sky-daddy.

[Ryantology]

Faith is powerful. It can save lives.

I'm sure when you pray to find your car keys and then do, it makes up for all the lives ended, or ruined, or made miserable through the application of huge amounts of guilt-tripping, child abuse of all varieties, and outright violence, thanks to faith.

[Question Mark]

I think that religion is something that could proxy for something in order to give people hope, but there's nothing about the support structure of religion that can not be achieved through a community, or a secular organisation. Ultimately I believe it'll lead to more problems than it solves, and infuses some people with a corrosive attitude.

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I do think certain people wouldn't be alive without depending on religion to get them through the day. Faith is powerful. It can save lives.

Faith is delusion. If at any other point in one's life, one just takes anything on faith, and they turn out to be wrong, they're a fool, and if right, they are lucky, but both times they are scorned.
Accepting something without evidence is dangerous.

[naimless]

Religion is a broad word.

But yes, I believe some people's brains need a theistic, or at least an agnostic view to obtain a productive lifestyle.

For a lot of people in the world, it's faith or drugs. You either delusionally believe everything will be better or delusionally believe it is better.

Most people naturally believe this anyway. They visualise the future for themselves or their current situation as a positive thing without any evidence.

Putting hypomanic faith in the universe, or karma, or a god of some description is the ultimate experience of enlightenment or empowerment for some minds, more-so than any drug.

[PyroManiac]

No one needs religion, They just falsify themselves by believing in such mytholigical creatures.

[The Magic Pudding]

Yes no doubt some people need religion.
To escape reality, a stoning, social isolation, justification and inspiration for their ugly nature or...

[Nobody]

Some people need to see their reason for existing in a nice tidy box. When it comes with a rule book also, it's their ideal.
Those folks aren't prone to recycling the box and using the book for a good fire when the electric is turned off for lack of payment, and the fireplace is the only source of heat because those prayers said for days have achieved no sudden influx of green salvation in the mail or falling from that invisible provider in the sky.

It's as it should be. Supplicant fundamentalists serve as an example to what can become of a people who give up on themselves and turn to nothing, expecting it to save them.

[Confused Ape]

I voted yes because new religions are being started in modern times. For example, UFO Religions.

It's possible that our species evolved to have religion.

Professor Pascal Boyer, an anthropologist at Washington University and author of Religion Explained, said that atheism was probably the unnatural way to be.

I've been reading a number of articles about how and why humans could have acquired religion as the result of evolution and all of them conclude that atheists are the odd ones out.

[Justtristo]

I think at least in our age, religion's main purpose is give people a sense of purpose in their lives. Because a lot of our fellow humans can't accept that there is no inherent meaning to our existence, instead we need to find that same meaning.

[justin]

No but they would rather have it than the truth. Which is no one knows. If anything happens after you die. Which we all have been dead for billions of years so i don't see any reason to be bothered by it in the first place. Kinda like permanent retirement. Except no nagging wife with saggy tits.