Benefits inside the religion

Benefits inside the religion


Benefits inside the religion
Believing in a supernatural existence as a God is an ancestral human-behavior. Religion took a place in this scenario feeding believers in such entities with advice, rules, and places to do their rituals. By 9831 B.C.E, it has appeared the first evidence about organized religions, and the main idea of these religions were trying to explain the unknown. However, the science begun to clarify the unknown as a result the power of religion started to decrease. Nowadays, there is a great number of people, who do not have any religion. In fact, there are two concepts regarding this subject, which are Agnosticism and Atheism. An agnostic, in the popular sense is someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of a deity or deities, but an atheist is someone who do not believe in the existence of any deities. Both deal with the necessity to believe or not in the divinity. Although these innovative philosophies have risen over the years rejecting religion principles, the recompenses for being part of a religion are important in the fields of troubleshooting, social comportment, existential purpose, and a sense of community.
Studies have revealed that the major viewpoint to an atheist to support its view is argue that there is no difference having faith in a God or yourself. However, this perspective ignores the detail that a stronger relief can induce in the human’s conduct. First, people constantly have situations that they cannot do anything about (out of their control). Once these situations arise, people seek for answers, and they are attracted to try finding their solutions by the religion. For example, a person, who lost its entire family due to some unexpected event, can use the religion as a way to relieve its emotional pain. Also, it can take advantage of the afterlife concept hoping to meet its family in the future, which is a feature of the major religions worldwide. Furthermore, a typical behavior found in humans...

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