84% percent of the world claims a religion of some kind. And most of the remaining 16% have a stance specifically against it. It is and arguably has been the most influencial idea/practice in human history. Cultures are based on it, laws are made because of it, and in some cases, lives are given or even taken in the name of it. For as long as man has existed, there have been questions that we could not answer. Some of those have been answered through mans intellectual and logical progression through history... but if anything, progression and growth have left more questions than answers.
For many, religion, deity, a higher being, the supernatural, gives meaning to the unknowable... It gives meaning and comfort to the fear thats greatest for logical man, the supreme creature on earth: namely, what we dont know, and cant know. Apathy can run its course only so long before the questions face us... what are we doing here? and what happens when we leave?
Without opinions and commentary on particulars, its agreeable then, that these questions are, and have been universal in all cultures, societies, and countries throughout mans existence.
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