Why religion is appealing (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, December 10, 2010, 07:24 (5097 days ago) @ George Jelliss

This doesn't really answer why religion has the hold it does.
> People also get happiness from other community activities,
> such as supporting football clubs, or even local humanist groups.
> I don't believe there is any inherent need to believe in gods.
> I've certainly never detected any tendency for that in myself.
> In fact I would say I have an inherent liking for natural explanations.-Football and other clubs filled a social need for me, but I can not say that they ever scratched the particular itch I have that spirituality does. And contrary to other popular beliefs, for me at least, it has nothing to do with being afraid of death or the unknown, or the need for a non-naturalistic explanation for events. When science makes sense, I have no problem excepting their explanations for things. However, when they start touting things like quantum fluctuations literally created something for nothing, I just want to reach across and slap them while asking what created the quantum fluctuations, or designed the system that allowed those quantum fluctuations to happen in the first place. Some may think me unreasonable, irrational, or illogical, but to me, saying that I observe too much organization for it all to be random chance is not illogical, or irrational at all.