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Why humans believe in God: He fulfils need for vengeance, power and 14 other human needs
A PROFESSOR believes he has finally laid bare the psychology behind religion, claiming that people only believe in God to satisfy their basic human desires.
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To be fair, it can also be claimed that God created humans with these innate desires which instills a drive to search for God.
I also wonder what is the reasoning behind the desire of "eating" and how it fits into the need to have a God.
"Status" is also a strange one that I'd be curious to get more information about since religions (usually) call for the submission of believers.
Possibly, but that's not a claim that can be falsified. I can just as easily say that I'm God and created humans with these innate desires, and it's equally valid.
It's part of our survival, and food insecurity has been with us for as long as we've been around. Feelings of insecurity tend to drive us to seek things for comfort, which would make events that ease those feelings a reason to give thanks to a higher power looking out for us.
Religion is an inherently tribal practice whether or not your religion focuses on submission (not all do). There was a time in the US when you could walk into a bank and obtain a loan simply by declaring yourself a member of the Methodist church. The expectation of religious privilege continues to pervade otherwise secular societies like the US, and challenges to it have given rise to demands for "religious liberty" which are indistinguishable from demands for the right to discriminate on religious grounds.