Religion
In reply to the discussion: There is a lot of talk in this forum about god [View all]handmade34
(22,756 posts)God is "that which cannot be defined"
and I don't mean that is an esoteric sense; it is meant literally.
Humans need to make sense, we need to make meaning. Cultures create a shared story for themselves and most different cultures had some sort of creation story and all were very similar at the time...
Different cultures created a 'savior' and the stories are all very similar...
Our stories are who we are, and what brings us together... and that is as it should be (within a framework of respect and tolerance).
Myths and gods (and God) were created to be that thing (or those things) we could not understand.
We have much knowledge now... but God still exists for those amorphous concepts and acts we still can't comprehend or understand and God still exists for the people that are fearful of losing the security that a God provides.