Religion: Who needs it? :: social issues

Religion Who needs it?Why is it that humans atomic number 18 constantly looking elsewhere for what they are able to provide themselves? People with washers and dryers send their change state to be cleaned. Owners of houses stocked full of food can be found at McDonalds. Billions of people can be found each week intimate churches. Wait...the cleaners,McDonalds and churches? Yep. People are constantly trying to make their lives easier. Darwin theorized that this was part of Survival of the Fittest. That the easier we make our lives, the more like we are to survive. Religion is one more elbow room, along with self-starting coffee pots, that we have developed to make our lives easier and ultimately more bearable. Assuming that there is some master plan that we cant see makes. Religion is simply a self-made, self-serving whim. Humans are the only animals on the planet capable of keeping track of time. Because of this, we pompously assume that only the most valuable of projects are w orth our time. We sometimes say, That was a total waste of my time. What if our entire lives were a waste? What if there was nothing after this life to greet us? The idea that lives are giant wastes would obviously make same people rather annoyed. With religion in our life we are content in the belief that we are constantly working toward something. There is a reason for all the pain, heartache and suffering. Another counseling that religion is self-serving is through the way that it shuns responsibility. By way of religion we are able to place our eternal happiness on someone elses shoulders. Although it is our responsibility to live the kind of life that we think theology would want us to live, it is ultimately his decision wether we succeed or fail. Because of this I really appreciate the Buddhist way of thinking. Buddhist teach that you are to look internal yourself to find the inspiration and good to reach the ultimate goal, known as enlightenment. Through this it is no one s responsibility but your own if you arent happy or successful. It isnt that God has or hasnt blessed you, its that the answer lies within yourself and you just havent found it yet. The last way that religion is self serving and foolish is in another way that we make oursleves happier and more content. Through self-induced propaganda we believe that regardless of our situation in life, someone is watching us, and taking care of us.