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I'm sure it has, at least, already explained why we make use of a God. Humans and all other animals have needed optimal rules to work by in order to survive best and propagate the various species.A highly intelligent species like H. Sapiens needs a built-in strict controlling influence to make it 'behave right' and it is not surprising that genes have evolved to give us a need for a higher authority. We behave badly enough as it is and, without a God figure, we'd have hacked each other to pieces long ago.
Do you mean we need religion to give us morals? You say without a god figure we would have hacked each other to pieces, what about all the people that have been hacked to pieces in the name of religion?
Although I am not a believer I feel that (the better behaved) religions are better for a society than no religion. That sounds very condescending / smug, I know, but I often feel that, if more people thought about ethics and 'spiritual' matters as much as I do, personally, the World would be a nicer place to live in.
"Atheism is as much a faith as Christianity "In the same sense that bald is a hair colour.Strictly speaking, since I can't prove that there is no God, I ought to be described as agnostic on this matter.Oddly, nobody describes me as agnostic when I say I don't believe in the tooth fairy, but my reasons for disbelief are pretty much the same. Equally, I don't know of anyone who describes a child's fear of the "monsters under the bed" as being a matter of religious faith.Atheism is generally taken not just to mean the belief that there is no God, but a more general feeling that one only believes in things for which there is positive evidence.As it happens, science generally does the same thing.