[WheelsAtLarge]

At every point in our society nothing happens unless someone or something causes it. So it's easy to carry that idea over to how the world/universe was created. There must be someone that created it. It's the simplest answer that makes sense in our minds. We have a good imagination and can come up with ideas of how something was created. Add to that how easy we believe what others tell us, especially people we respect, then we have what's needed to create a god and the need to worship him/her/they/(?).

We seek an answer but there is no answer. We can never know how our universe came to be. We don't have someone to tell us and we can't go back in time. We think science might help us but science has limits that we can't overcome.

There's also the overwhelming fear of death. Religion gives us relief by teaching that there's an after world. No one has returned from death to tell us all about it so we have no absolute answer. So anything you believe has a chance of being right. I choose to believe that our spirit continues. It works for me.