This. Is. Me.

. . .and you are welcome here. Hey, first post ever. I hope I can broaden those horizons with my many thoughts on many things, for that is what I do. I think. For starters, heres somehting I prepared much, much earlier.

I think that anyone who believes they are Atheists have a very narrow mind and view of the world. True believers in Christ, though almost certainly deluded, at least have that strength of will to take it on trust that they have been granted happiness after death.
I think that people believe in God just so they can forget about the fear that death places in them. When we forget about something bad or put it out of our minds, we feal much better and life is that little bit easier to get on with. I think that believing in a higher power and in Heaven ensures a great certainty in our lives. Without this certainty, a lot of the people on this planet would not be able to function in their lives. Because, without religion, what is there? Consider this as a human being. The only reason we are the dominant species on this planet is because of our ability to learn very, very quickly. We learned how to survive, we learned how to make things better for ourselves. We adapt and discover. So we are a very curious species. Not knowing things, anything, puts fear in us. Example: We are afraid of the dark/prefer the light. The darkness is full of uncertainty and the unknown so we are afraid to be there. Of course, we can figure out a lot about everything. Scientists have proved so much about time, space and physics. But we just can't figure out what happens after our deaths. So, if religion didn't exist, we wouldn't be human beings. We don't like fear, so we have to know about the things that are happenig to us. We can't figure out death: we make up our own answer and try to get on with our lives. We try not to think about things that upset us, because we're human. You consider all the bad traits in someone: selfishness, greediness, being mean. These might be bad traits but every single one of us is a subject to these emotions.
Every little thing we do is something we do because we think it is a benefit to ourselves. That is our only motivation to do anything. Even being generous, helping someone: We do it because we know it will make us feel better about ourselves. Helping someone to be happier makes us feel good.
Otherwise, whats the point in doing anything? To do something, we need to be properly motivated and the only way to motivate someone properly is to get them to see that doing the task will be in benefit to them.
I think if we all were not subject to these emotions we would be the perfect Communist society. Thats not written in a negative way, it is just an observation.
Anyway, where was I?
I think that all religion is born of fear of the unknown. If we, humans, don't know how something works, we fear it. At least, we did when we thought up religion. The first religions involved a lot of Gods. There was a God for everything, for the sun, for fertility, for nature, for everything. There were Gods for all these things because humans at the time didn't know how they functioned and didn't have the means to figure them out. So, instead of losing their minds over confusion and fear of everything, they invented a shield. Y'see, way back then, the human mind couldn't think of how those things worked but it still had one thing going for it: its imagination. I think that religion is such a great and valuable thing. Without religion, there is only uncertainty and uncertainty is very bad. I can't quite imagine what it would be like if humans didn't feel the need to be certain about things. I think that, if that was the case, we wouldn't have evolved at all. If we didn't have to be certain about everything, we wouldn't have to be curious. So we wouldn't care about survival or anything. So there would actually be no life on Earth. In order for anything to survive, thrive and function, there has to be curiosity in every living thing.
So, we have curiosity. We have such a large curiosity, for everything. So we if we are curious about something, we try to figure it out. If we can't figure it out, we try a differnt approach. Such as it is with death. We can't figure it out, its like trying to open a safe with a crowbar but the crowbar is on the inside of the safe. We have no idea. And that scares us. So, we devise a clever shield to proect us from the fear. And this shield is faith and religion.