Will we always have a need for religion?

Question

Mankind cannot understand or explain everything, a person cannot know all there is to know. Faith in a divine creator/supervisor of the cosmos fills in the gaps.
We will always feel the need to controll the uncontrollable (prayer/rabbits feet) we will always have death and the afterlife to wonder about.
Once we have advanced to the limits of science, will we return to religion, or will science replace it?

Answer 1

yes we will

Answer 2

I'm not sure if we need to worship something. In the 40's, 50's, and 60's it certainly seemed as though we were worshiping science. Scientists were the know-it-alls everyone looked up to, kind of like pastors in churches can be.
The need to find something perfect and pristine can be a result of immaturity. Children idealize their parents. Some ,due to childhood trauma, never get past this stage and look to other things to project this idealness onto. Scientists or lay people who think theories and models are physical realities and absolute truths suffer from the same disease as someone who thinks every idea in presented in church is absolute, unquestionable truth. It's the same need to find something ideal to look to.
I've been to therapy for the last 6 years working on my narcissism. And I'll have to say this need to find something ideal is diminishing. I'm not sure if it'll go away completely but the volume is turned way down to the point where I hardly think about it anymore. I wonder if religion is a result of the narcissim of our society.
Aside from the idealness, I believe there can be spirituality without the need for perfection. Science just DESCRIBES reality. It is not reality itself. A magnetic field is a concept that's useful for dealing with forces between electric currents. But we'll never know wether it's an actual, physical entity. This is true for any scientific model. No scientific theory of model ever perfectly accounts for what we observe in the real world. Some come real close, but there's always some error of uncertainty or conditions where the model just doesn't work.
So we're still left with the questions of why are we here, what is reality and so on. There IS still mystery in the world and, I believe, always will be. Science just makes the world more predictable, it does little to give it meaning.

Answer 3

Religion is irrelevant to existence...as millions of people around the world can attest to.

Religion is only necessary to those too weak to make their own decisions, who cannot depend upon themselves to make a good life, who are fearful of death and are looking for something after death.

It is completely unreasonable to believe in something that is simply not there. Not one iota of evidence has ever been found confirming gods, goddesses, heaven, hell or any other religious holdings.

Answer 4

Some people do need "religion" and prefer it. No need to think for yourself, just blindly follow a religion - all the thinking is done for you. Just do the rituals they ask of you - and if you don't do them, they'll ask again and again for you to do them...

But for most of us - you cannot ignore your own inner voice and spirit, which does not align itself to any religion - otherwise it is drowned out, and forgotten about.

Answer 5

what u said is wirte a person is gonna need a religion in the end

Answer 6

As a species we don't need it, and as individuals we don't all need it, but I'm certainly prepared to believe that *some* individuals do feel that they need it.

Answer 7

We don't "need" it now.