Religious Importance

Believing in a supernatural existence as a God is an ancestral human-behavior. Religion took a place in this scenario supplying the religious people with advice, rules, and a place to do their rituals (e.g. temples, churches, and mosques). However, nowadays the number of people who do not have any religion is increasing. These people are also called agnostic. They deal with the necessity to believe in supernatural existences. Although some people oppose having a religion, there are more reasons that support the importance to be religious.

Agnostics complain that there is no difference to have faith in a God or yourself. A slight line separates this affirmation showing that more important than to have faith in a God are the other benefits that the belief in a supreme existence can induce. For example, when humans are exposed to situations out of their control, they seek for answers instead of giving up, so the role of the religion is provide a way for them overcome such problems. In addition, people are always confident in their lives when they know that have someone capable to help them. For instance, religious people believe that do not matter what situation arose they will get some help from a divine existence. Therefore, it is visible that the religion brings a range of different benefits for their followers.

Talking about the social influences that the religion brings on is a polemical topic. There a considerable groups arguing that there is not a religion which is able to influence people’s behavior. In contrast, the existence of a supernatural entity helps people to think about their acts before they make anything. According to Bering and Johnson, “… the fact that they cannot gossip or, for that matter, the fact that they...

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...le argue that to believe in heaven or hell is a foolish stuff, such as parents saying for their children that exist monsters beneath the bed on a attempt to controls their actions. In contrast, it is not just heaven or hell the major importance, but the other meanings that to believe in them bring on. For example, it is a fact that everyone will die. All types the religion has as a principle something about afterlife. It is a way to give meanings for their existence. Also, believing in hell or heaven bring the justice sense. Then, it will be easy to knew that the world is still fair and all of humans will receive what they have did during their journey in the Earth.

To sum up, being religious help in many aspects in human life. Even though there are a variety of points for and against this topic, the best way to do is respect people's ideas no matter what they are.