re: #10 Obdicut

There is strong evidence that belief in god stems from humans’ pattern-matching ability; the same capacity that allows us leaps of logic, that allows us to conceptualize about things that don’t exist yet or can’t immediately be proved leads to belief in god and the supernatural, as well.

Religion was a tool - pray to god and hope to catch the animal or carry out a ritual and the hunt will go well. It is man trying to control or bargain with nature.

Over time religion became a way to organize society (circumcisions used to tamp down sex urges for example).

As we get get more advanced in science you no longer need to pray to a god to get your health back. You visit a doctor. As we become more advanced and can alter nature to our benefit we need god less and less as a tool to get stuff but religion still plays a role in organizing societal behaviors and that will be the hardest habit to break.