Everyone is entitled to the way they live and what they believe in. On that note, I used to think that religion is something that people came up with to explain the unknown. People do not like to not know how, why, when, and where things happened or have to happen. Scientists and many people examine things just to learn about them, to lead to new things that could help human kind and to uncover the unknown. Before doing any research myself I often said that religion is a way to add all the things that they do not know and cannot explain into one thing; like how people came about, people think of evolution or creation. Evolution is people evolved from apes and gorillas, but no one has found a half-man half-gorilla …show more content…
They have comfort thinking they are working for a better afterlife. Hope is a part of religion in a sense that no one wants to find out that they have been working and praising someone they never heard nor seen. People who do not follow a religion do not have as many morals and values as a believer do. It does not mean that if a person does not follow a religion that they will have a bad life or be a bad person. No one can tell who goes to church and who does not all the time, some people do their own thing without leaving the house. Non-church going people and non-believers might be very nice people anyways. Proverbs are great advice and a lot of religions go by them. People love to have structure in their life, which they are able to pick and control, like religion, but not making up what they do in that …show more content…
Some think positively and others think negatively of things in life; but all have at least a little of each in them. The main purpose of religion is to obtain the good things of life and to ward off life's evils. Morals and values play a large part in religion, like marrying, eating, killing, and stealing. One question of religion is how Buddha did not obtain a God or gods to look up to and praise. A religious teacher is how people consider Buddha. There is an idea that there is another dimension to life besides the material one, as in God and