[crdrost]

I mean, I would be surprised if you lacked the “sense of color” altogether. But I will say that, it needs to be cultivated over time.

That the trappings and ceremonies of religion are co-opted by power-structures and televangelists and faith healers to divide and exploit and extract money from... To us religious these are true wolves in sheep-clothing.

I don't think you should seek the answer in a biological imperative to be religious. Instead try to see the Chasm. A yawning chasm saying that we are not worth it, that what we do shall not amount to anything, that all is lost/hopeless, that in the long run you are unloved and unlovable... That is the Chasm.

The experience of the Chasm is very common, and the need to run away from it is very real. Things we do to run away from it include social structures like blaming/ridiculing others, various addictions and obsessions to numb it, food and TV and relationships and sometimes even drugs. Marx saw religion as just another one of these, not evil intrinsically—but he thought the Chasm to come from folks' reactions to their own enslavement and that there wouldn't be a Chasm after we abolished wage slavery.

But religiosity in the sense you mean is better understood as the part where we turn and fight, where we take a stand against the Chasm rather than running forever. Its ubiquity comes from the common problem it attempts to solve, not from some random biological preset. Us religious folks continue because we think we have found something strong enough to fight it, whether it is Jesus or the truth of no-self or the pursuit of a cosmic Harmony or something else entirely.