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[QUOTE="Stu_Ungar, post: 1351160, member: 39779"]
just to throw a curve ball at BelgoSuisse.  The concept of religion is more complex than simply is there a God?

If we take the stance that there is not a God, we have to offer up an explanation as to why people throughout the world believe in God.  It doesn't matter where in the world you look, you will find people who believe in God.  You could go to a remote African tribe who have had no contact with the outside world and still find belief in God.

If you examined their beliefs you would find similarities, rituals, common metaphors and such that seem to be echoed in other religions throughout the world.

Now as we have taken the stance that God does not exist, we could explain all this away with human behaviour.  There is something about being human, that causes these beliefs.

Now the interesting part -- if belief in God is a natural human behaviour, are atheists going against the grain, so to speak, of natural human behaviour?  When we look at psychology, we find that fighting natural behaviour causes problems.  So regardless of whether or not God exists, are their benefits in terms of psychological well-being to believe?
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