What are the feelings and needs that have led men to religious thought and belief?

Question

In the widest means of these words?

Philosophers and good friends, what are your thoughts on this?
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Answer 1

Mainly fear and wonder. Man has evolved partly because his brain has evolved to seek and provide answers. This has served us very well throughout our evolution, but it has also created tendencies for our brain to find apparent answers even when there is great uncertainty. We assume things based on limited information and we rationalize. Early man noticed that his actions caused reactions, which were explained by his actions. So man's brain sought causes for everything he witnessed. As this concept evolved through ever more elaborate rationalization, it became deeply entrenched in various groups as they passed on such "knowledge" through the generations. Explanations are more comforting and satisfying than open questions.

Answer 2

If it is learned through culture it does not boil down to feelings and needs. The question can really only apply strictly to people who knew nothing about religion and then one day sought it out due to feelings and needs. More loosely it can also apply to people who were not religious or raised in a religious setting but later chose to be religious due to feelings and needs.

Of course a person who was not originally religious might turn religous because of things fundamentally different than feelings and needs. It could boil down to the result of an intellectual process, for example.

That all said, for those who weren't religious but then became religious, I can imagine a lot of possible feelings and needs. I'll bet almost any feeling or need could get involved, in fact.
Joy, sorrow, fear, need for love, depression, need to overcome hallucinations, love, grief, need for social contact, curiosity, desire to quit drugs, desire to have another "light experience," desire for inner peace, desire for money, desire to evolve, distaste for the world, need to work out karma, desire for a better astral life than last time,....

YOU NAME IT.

Answer 3

Needs for assurance, security, identity, fidelity, purpose as opposed to threat, vulnerability, nothingness, rejection, disorientation and dread. Empty infinity is an intolerable concept for a proper living condition.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Erickson#Erikson.27s_theory_of_personality

Answer 4

Stupidity.

Answer 5

feelings of Death, Old age, and waning Sexual appetite has led men to religious thoughts and belief

Also uncertainity of nature, Quakes, floods, diseases, famines, even Darkness of Night.

Answer 6

In Acts 1:8 Jesus gave us a pattern for involvement: "You will tell everyone about me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and everywhere in the world". His followers were to reach out to their community (Jerusalem), to their country (Judea), to other cultures (Samaria), and to other nations (everywhere in the world). Note that our commision is simultaneous, not sequential.

Answer 7

Awe and gratitude, ignorance and fear are the feelings. The needs are our insistence that we know the unknowable, that we can influence the uncontrolable, and that we can cheat death in the end.

Answer 8

Mortality.

Answer 9

in case you advise why do adult adult males grow to be adult adult males of the textile, it only stems from their ideals. A concept is a effective physique of ideas. If one is so vulnerable to concept strongly interior the assumption of religion, then that so be it.

Answer 10

A quest to find our PURPOSE leads us to such thinking.

Chandra A