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I think the main draw of all religions might be

the social aspect. Not the idea of a relationship with a God figure.
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“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.”

― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Ohplease47 · F
@BlueSkyKing do you agree with his take?
@Ohplease47 Go with the simplest and most likely reason.
Ohplease47 · F
@BlueSkyKing my simple reason shows me two general ways to approaching ultimate spirituality, the inner way, mostly involving personal motivations and reflections and less words, and the outer way the way of words and precepts. And each way works differently, both useful, and mostly interactive...