Why believe in [a religious] God?

Something I have always wondered about is why believe in God? Part of the story I thought was that fear held religion together, creating something of an understanding in people’s life which in turn made the unexplained events into an explainable thing. Still this is not the case; people are just not pushed into religion because they cannot understand death or illness even if they are very scared. Fear directing belief is not true of course, if it were I would be happy because at least it is a logical reason and something science can remove slowly. More than that, this reason alone helps me feel less scared about the world I live in. Perhaps there is some truth about it which exist in religion, well at least be honest with me here the Christian religion, the one I know most about, has a bible full of evil things. If you disagree than you are a fool, those without religion have a morality that exceeds that of the bible or religious people. Hell is an evil construct and something an atheist would not teach with such force to make Children do what they want them too.

The truth is scary, at least this why I think religion exists, part of it is the family were people grow up in and the rest is in what society we happen to live. As children we are exposed to a certain religion, it is then we take in the information and then as we grow older, to start to believe that its true and right with all the others being so wrong. This is why when we watch a scary movie as a child that we should have not, the fears it presented us lives long into adulthood, clowns for some reason do this with my generation. If you never saw a clown until you were an adult then you would simply wonder what all the fuss was about. This is a lot but not enough, for religion does something else it creates a community in which it can survive. Catholics don’t just believe they also demonstrate that they believe and it’s not just going to church on a Sunday that can do this. People tend to live, know and be friends with people that tend to share their own believes, even in multi-cultural societies faith schools and the role of parents help children to grow up mostly knowing their own. Their own is a succinct way of saying this, there is no real difference between us.

It’s these two reasons why belief in God is so real, none of this is about true or rational understanding. It does not show how some people can turn towards a religion that they did not grow up with it, still most people I know would fit this explanation and this should never be the cause of belief.