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Religion originated under the shaggy foreheads of our ancestors somewhere on average Paleolith. Science as a method appeared later - that in ancient Greece. But, like all the rest of our qualities, and that and the other did not go down to us on the cloud, but got from the ancestors of animals. Actually, there is no religion and science. But they have something from which religion and science have grown and science: faith, knowledge, as well as the need and in the other.

First, animals needed objective knowledge to increase control over the surrounding. The processed facts add up to experience, and the more, the better the animal is adapted, the easier it is its life and more successful reproduction.

Vera appears later, at about the same level of mental evolution as the figurative thinking. The dog barks on the door behind the door, because believes: this noise is not just so, behind him there is someone who needs to be worn. And it gives her an illusion of control. Just illusion, but this is enough to reduce stress from the incomprehensible and potentially dangerous situation. And the lower the level of stress, the easier way life and successful reproduction.

The benefits of knowledge is obvious. But from the faith of her lots:

Faith saves time and brain resources when making decisions. In nature, he solves the one who solves not so much true as fast.

Faith sees at random phenomena, some strength created their strength and tries to influence this force. It saves from the development of learned helplessness. When everything is bad and nothing can be changed, you can stay for illusions and rituals as for the straw, and this imaginary straw is really supported.

Faith improves our ability to understand each other. Alien soul Potmon, all our ideas about the inner world of another - exclusively guesses, phantom facts. Nevertheless, they help us build real relationships, make friends and influence people. that the better the person is developed empathy and the ability to understand someone else's psyche, the greater the inclination of him for this or that kind of religiosity. It seems that the relationship with imaginary friends work as a simulator to catch the skills of reading shower.

And finally, faith turns our existential anxiety in fear. Excellent replacement, right? True, excellent. The fear of death is already in animals. From here, famous rituals of farewell and burials at elephants, monkeys and dolphins, and Etologist Mark Bekoff in the book "Emotional life of animals" describes such behavior even in Lam, foxes and wolves. Great empath - dogs are afraid of the death of the owner. Coco about his beloved kitten, shot down by the car: "Bad. Sad. Sleep, cat "(r.i.p., koko. We too).

According to the famous psychotherapist Irwin Yaloma, the anxiety of non-existence and the preconcelive knowledge of death we have from the very birth. It becomes conceptual for five years, when we first realize that I will die. Common. Sometimes - and I do not. At all. Horror! The horror of the Hydegger is a shipping level of alarm, in which the object calling it is impossible. While a person is in this state, he is not capable of any action. Anxiety paralyzes the will and activity, because I am not separated from my me. But if it is turned it into fear, it will be isolated from me and manage. Not me, so someone else. With whom, how believing our Machiavellian intelligence, you can certainly agree.

Science is uncompromising, and religion is always the art of negotiations. Well, death is an opportunity from which it is impossible to refuse. But you can discuss the conditions? Any religion recognizes the fact that you will die, but complements it to the promise that when performing certain conditions, this will not end.

Hope for immortality is our way of controlling death fear. Irrational, illusive, but the other has not yet come up with. Science will be hurt everything, and we need right now.

Life with its existential problems and general alarming spontaneity stresses us, and there are only two means - control and predictability. Real or illusory - for the psyche is not so important.

Scientists placed two groups of rats in an uncomfortable position: they were connected, lay on his back and could not do anything. But at the same time could nibble a wooden wand, and the other is not. Guess which group recovered faster from stress? In gnawing sticks, as in any ritual, there is no rational meaning. But it makes sense in reducing stress. Experiments on animals and people are shown: imaginary management situation soothes the same as the present. And if there is no difference, why pay more?

That is why there are no atheists in the trenches under fire and even in the plane during turbulence they are becoming less than ten minutes ago. Religion gives a way out of a hopeless situation. Yes, you painted it yourself on the wall. But for your health is better than any.

But if faith is such a useful thing, for which it is now so screamed by scientists, enlighteners and other good people with good education?

After all, it was not always. When the thrust for faith and knowledge, in combination with the accumulative culture mechanism, spawned religion and science, until the time they lived peacefully. Shaman-Lekari. Astronomer priests. Monk genetic. The books were written in the monasteries, universities were recalled from the abbey, and it was difficult to understand where the same thing ends. But the powerful social and cultural institutions gradually growing on the basis of faith and knowledge and switched from cooperative relations to competitive.

And by the beginning of the XXI century, their conflict reached the historical maximum. Yes, once scientists burned on fires, but the Middle Ages in principle a burda. It was a normal way to solve issues, and scientists took place on the general basis. But when in the XXI century, supporters of religion and science are organized by real cocks, Mamkina Veruna and Mamkina Atheists walk the wall on the wall on the Internet, and scientists and priests in public debates move litter and banana skins, it is no longer quite normal. Moreover, the feelings of the participants are so intertwined and mutually insulted that the hell would not understand who believes what he knew what he knew and who was ready to overgrow his breath. For truth? For influence on the audience? For the victory of his concept over the opponent's concept? Whatever it is, as a result, the next unpleasant thing is obtained.

Knowledge and faith are the main natural ways of regulation of stress. We need both of them, because knowledge works in conditions of sufficient information, and faith - in conditions of insufficient.

But public opinion insists on the choice: no, friend, or you are with us on the side of light, or with these on the side of darkness. And we have to choose.

The situation of a complex selection launches the well-known effect of cognitive dissonance: choosing one thing, we immediately begin to depreciate the rejected option.

Chicken or fish?

Uh-uh ... well ... probably fish ... yes, fish! Fish useful. And chicken what? There is even phosphorus in it.

It's not scary that a person chose a religion, it is terrible that false dichotomy imposed by the society makes it depreciating the alternative: "Yes, that your science does not know anything about it." And it can deprive him of a lot from the fact that science could give him, but will not give me, because herself stands in Pose: "Early to believe it or fall."

Although no one must choose between its basic needs. We are entitled to both. For knowledge to reduce stress with real facts. And on faith to do it when the facts are missing.

But to maintain adequacy, we must separate phantom facts from the present. And here, actually hides the main problem.

In the new release of "Everything like the beasts" we have a simple experience illustrating the relationship of faith and knowledge in a separate head. Modestly I hope that for someone he will clarify something and maybe even slightly reduce the number of meaningless disassembly, flooded TVs and internets. After all, to get rid of prejudices, and not to strengthen them or replace them with others, you just need to gently add knowledge into each individual head. And they themselves will displacing everything too much. Believe me, no other ways cannot be achieved.

Physiologist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in the field of medicine

We live in a world where many are so religious that they are ready to easily kill themselves similar, having other views on life. Today we are afraid of Muslims with weapons in your hands, but are not yet forgotten times when humanity moan under the iron fifth of Christianity. In the Middle Ages, the bombed religious wars were embossed years and burned in the fires of heretics and witches. The then Christians did not have any scientific knowledge and took everything for a clean coin, which priests told them. But how to explain the fact that modern people who have comprehended the knowledge accumulated by previous generations, for some reason, also believe in speaking fiery bushes, a fairy tale about Paradise, and angels, the kinders of heaven in the mighty wings?

Let's try to figure out why people believe in God

The most important factor determining the human religion is his place of birth. In our country, many people are Christians, simply because they were born in Christian families. If they were born somewhere in China, then with a high probability would be a Buddhist and at the moment meditated, trying to achieve enlightenment.
This is because a small child is only a blank sheet that does not know anything about the world around and gets all the necessary information from its parents. He believes his father and mother, their words are indisputable true for a tiny little man. And adults enjoy this, making a trusting child of another Muslim or Christian. Religion is presented as obvious knowledge that do not require evidence.
All would be good, but these knowledge came up with ancient people who thought that the sun revolves around the Earth standing on the elephants and a turtle. Our ancestors did not know why it was raining or thunder, what stars and the sun. Without the opportunity to explain similar phenomena, people began to invent some completely fantastic gods and spirits.

Many people start believing in God, Illness with severe illness or faced with serious life troubles.

They hope only to help heaven, because none of the closest to help them, alas, unable. As they say, drowning clings even for the smallest straw.
Also, do not forget that religion has always had priests who used it as a means for enriching and gaining power. They wore unusual apparels, filmed mysterious rites and prayers to make the impression on their flock. In medieval Europe, the church managed without any special problems to accumulate enormous wealth, while preaching the holiness of poverty and humility. Nowadays, there are also many luxurious temples and cathedrals decorated with gold inside and outside. But all this money that could be spent, for example, to treat sick children.
Let's draw conclusions: people believe in God, not because it exists, because there is no evidence of this, but as a result of the following reasons:

• - Religion is largely determined by the birthplace. It is simply transmitted from generation to generation.
• - Many begin to believe under the cough of heavy life circumstances.
• - Faith in God makes a certain group of people financially secured. Therefore, they move it with all their might.

What is "God"?

Modern science every day makes a gigantic step forward, explaining what was previously considered miracles. We interpreted the emergence of the universe, land, water, air - life. And they arose not in seven days. Once people explained all the catastrophes of the anger of God. Now we understand that the earthquake is a consequence of the movement of the earth's crust, and the hurricane - air flows. Today, scientists find rays in biblical cataclysms that are not so difficult to express. Why did people not seek this explanation many years ago?

Religion - salvation or opium for the people?

The church always visited fear per person. And the church is not only a Christian. In each faith there is a similarity of Paradise and hell. Human always scared the punishment. It is known that the church had colossal power over society. Above the only doubt about the existence of the Most High could burn on a fire. Religion was used as a means of intimidation and management of mass. For many years, the church lost confidence among people. What is only worth the Inquisition, which destroyed thousands of people throughout Europe. In Russia, for example, those who missed the service on Sunday publicly beat a stick on Monday. In the times of Stalinist repression, the priests violated the sacrament of confession, transmitting the information of the KGB. The church fought with "heretics" - by associous people who could ask uncomfortable questions.

Even now there are many religious trends that simply zombie people using trust and different psychological techniques. For example, "White Brotherhood", very popular in the early 90s. How many people stayed without apartments, savings and families. It seems well, as a sensible person can believe in salvation from a dubious subject. It turned out - maybe. But, unfortunately, these stors are not taught people. Still, various religious flows are "washed brains" with gullible citizens. And the people believe them, even if tomorrow they say to drink poison in the name of God. Which God needs these meaningless victims.
In our modern time, we can safely discuss on any topic. Many theologians brought the arguments of the existence of God, as many atheists refuted them. But there is no obvious evidence of the existence of God, as no evidence that it is not. Everyone does the choice itself, what to believe and who prays.

What gives us a prayer and why do we believe?

It has been proven that the human thought is material. What we think about, we wish, dream and ask, may come to life. Our word is magic. We sometimes do not know how we can hurt or paint a person. Perhaps words together with thoughts are of great strength. What is this: the influence of God or unexplored human brain?

During the true prayer, a person seems to be transferred to another dimension where time slows down. Maybe so we get closer to God?

I remember one episode from Dr. House, when the husband of the patient, an atheist, prays his wife. To the question of House, why pray, if you don't believe in God, he replied: "I promised my wife that I would do everything for her recovery. If I do not pour it, it will not be everything. "

What gives us faith? Faith is painting a person, makes him confident in his capabilities. But we believe that God helps us, and not in their own strength. There are many stories about how faith saved people from cancer, drugs, alcohol ... But maybe this force was already in these people? Maybe faith in God simply provoked some special hormone in man?

Information for reflection is many ... But for some reason we pray and believe, when you can no longer do anything.

Anatomy of soul

In the 20-21 centuries, the study continued, but the theory of existence of the soul was only confirmed. It was possible to even remove her out of the body. It is worth considering the experience of people who survived clinical death. Absolutely unfamiliar people can not tell the same stories.

Why I can't refuse faith in God

Well, there are more questions than answers ... The modern person is used to hope for medicine, science, technical progress, but cannot refuse faith, hope, love and, in fact, God.

Religions appeared very long ago, but even earlier people began to believe in various deities, in paranormal. Faith in such things and interest in life after death appeared when people became people: with their feelings, thoughts, social institutions and bitterness in the loss of loved ones.

Previously, paganism and totemism appeared, then world religions were formed, for almost each of which is a great creator - God in different understanding and ideas depending on faith. Moreover, each person imagines him in different ways. What is God? No one will answer for it.

Consider below in the article question why people believe in God.

What gives religion?

There are different situations in a person. Someone is born in a very religious family, therefore also becomes the same. And some are experiencing loneliness or fall into such random dangerous situations, after which they survive and after that begin to believe in God. But on this examples do not end. The reasons and explanations of why people believe in God, there is a lot.

The power of faith in God sometimes does not know borders and can really benefit. A person gets the charge of optimism and hope when believes, praiths, etc., which affects the beneficial on the psyche, mood and the body.

Explanation of the laws of nature and the unknown

What is God for the people of the past? Faith then played a key role in the life of people. There were extremely few those who were an atheist. Moreover, the denial of God was relegated. Civilizations were not so developed to explain physical phenomena. And that is why people believed in the Divine responsible for different phenomena. For example, the ancient Egyptians had Amon, responding a little later in the sun; Anubis patronized the world of the dead and so on. So it was not only in Egypt. To praise the gods was accepted in ancient Greece, Rome, even to civilizations as such people believed in the deities.

Of course, over time, discoveries took place. It was discovered that the land is round, which is an immense space and much more. It is worth considering that faith is not connected with the mind of a person. Many scientists, discovers, inventors were believers.

Nevertheless, even the answers to some of the main questions still have not been found, such as: and what was before the formation of land and space in general? There is a big explosion theory, but has not been proven whether it really was that it was before him, which was the cause of the explosion and the other. It is not known whether there is a soul, reincarnation and so on. Exactly as not proven exactly that there is absolute and complete death. There are a lot of disputes in this soil in the world, but this uncertainty and the unknown does not go anywhere, but religions give answers to these eternal questions.

Surroundings, geography

As a rule, a man born in a religious family also becomes a believer. And the geographical place of birth affects what faith he will stick to. So, for example, Islam is common in the Middle East (Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc.) and in the north of Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Libya). But Christianity with all its branches is distributed almost throughout Europe, North America (Catholicism and Protestantism) and in Russia (Orthodoxy). That is why in a purely Muslim country, for example, almost all of believers are Muslims.

Geography and family usually affect whether a person will be a religious general, but there are some more reasons why people believe in God already in a more mature conscious age.

Loneliness

Belief in God often gives people some moral support over. Lonely need for this is a bit higher than those who have close. This is the reason that may affect the acquisition of faith, although before that the person could be an atheist.

Any religion has such a property that adherents feel involved in something global, great, sacral. She is also able to give confidence in tomorrow. It is worth noting that confident people are less dependent on the need to believe than unsure.

Hope

People can hope for different things: to save the soul, long life or to cure from diseases and cleansing, for example. In Christianity there are posts and prayers. With their help, you can create hope that everything will be really good. This brings optimism in many situations.

Some cases

As mentioned above, a person can dramatically believe in God. Often it happens after completely extraordinary life events. After the loss of a loved one or illness, for example.

There are cases when people suddenly think about God when they are face to face with danger, after which he was lucky: with a wild animal, a criminal, margin. Faith as a guarantee that everything will be fine.

Fear of death

People are afraid of many things. Death is what is waiting for everyone, but no one is usually ready for her. She happens in an unbiased moment and makes grieving all close. Someone perceives this end with optimism, and someone is not, but nevertheless it is always very uncertain. Who knows what is there on the other side of life? Of course, I want to hope for the best, and religions are just given this hope.

In Christianity, for example, after death, hell or paradise comes, in Buddhism - reincarnation, which is also not an absolute end. Vera in the soul implies immortality.

Above, we looked at some of the reasons. Of course, you should not discard that faith is unword.

Opinion from

Many psychologists and scientists suggest: it does not matter whether God is actually, but it matters only that it gives religion to every person. So, for example, American professor Stephen Rice held an interesting study, where he interviewed several thousand believers. In the survey, I revealed what kind of beliefs they adhere to, as well as the quality of character, self-esteem and much more. It turned out that, for example, peace-loving people prefer a good god (or try to see him), but those who seem to be sinless, they are sick and worried about this, give preference to the rigorous God in religion where fear is present Punishment for sins after death (Christianity).

Professor also believes that religion gives support, love, order, spirituality, glory. God as a certain invisible friend who will support or, on the other hand, fails if it is necessary for a person who is not enough in the lives of collections and motivation. Of course, it all relates rather to people who need to feel some kind of support. A religion can give it, as well as the satisfaction of human major feelings and needs.

But scientists from Oxford and University Coventry tried to identify the connection between religiosity and analytical / intuitive thinking. It would seem that the more analyticism in man, the higher the likelihood that he is an atheist. However, the results showed that there is no connection between the type of thinking and religiosity. Thus, they found out that the tendency to faith in man is determined by raising by upbringing, society, surroundings, but it is not given from birth and does not occur simply.

Instead of imprisonment

Let's summarize why people believe in God. There are many reasons: to find answers to questions that cannot be answered because it is "pick up" it is from parents and environments to fight feelings and fear. But this is all just a small part, as the religion really gave a lot to humanity. Many people believed in the past, will be in the future. Many religions imply under themselves the creation of good, from which you can enjoy and calm. Between the atheist and the believing difference only in the presence / absence of faith, but this does not reflect the personal qualities of a person. This is not an indicator of the mind, kindness. And even more so does not reflect social status.

Unfortunately, on the tendency of a person, the fraudsters, giving themselves for the great prophets and not only. You need to be careful and not to believe in dubious persons and sects that are very much lately. If you observe rationality and refer to religion, respectively, everything will be in order.