Why Are Humans Religious? - A Profound Explanation 

Because life is complicated and hard, reality is harsh and unforgiving, and there are many things that we’d like to have answers to that we simply don’t. Religion is about pretending none of this is true because it feels better to imagine that it’s not. That’s literally it.

This video is really clever. I come from a very religious Jewish family and I was never taught why I was Jewish. I was just expected to practice everything in my religion without raising my voice or id get in trouble. I’m 20 now and I’m not religious anymore. It’s made me so much more open and I feel my creative side coming out as now I’m free to think what I want.

I was raised catholic and it never resonated. I knew I wanted to break away from it, but it was difficult. I felt like it had a stranglehold on me especially because of family pressure. At one point I just made the decision to let it go. It was very liberating. Thank you for the video.

I grew up non-religious in an Islamic country. After going through a brief depression period at 15 because of the Islamic teachings at school, I became an atheist (without even knowing what it was until a few years later). From 18 to 22, I'd call myself an atheist and "debate" people over their faith, Islam or otherwise. I learned a lot about argumentation and logical fallacies. Then, at 22 I encountered psychedelics (which I don't condone using). I had my first experience with acid after some thorough research on its effects. I went into the experience with a very open mind but very low expectations. After the trip, I couldn't call myself an atheist anymore, as I had witnessed miracles and evidence for the existence of a "higher intelligence" or whatever. I knew something to be true without having empirical evidence for it (no evidence other than my own subjective experience). Faith. I know I'm not a Muslim or Christian, I know I no longer feel comfortable calling myself an atheist, yet I don't know what I actually believe. I'd still debate people over their faith to see how they justify it or whether or not it holds up to scrutiny as I would like mine to do so. (Sorry for the wall of text)

About 4 years ago I read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' by Paramahansa Yogananda, and he expresses the same ideal that both Eastern and Western religions are really about finding and acquiring the Kingdom of God - within you. In other words, 'Self-Realisation'. Great video. Really enjoyed it.

I grew up non-religious with no religious trauma. Homophobia was never preached, racism was seldom preached(my father had his moments), and we never went to church. Throughout the years, I became atheist, and so did my mother and sister, but father stayed a christian through label, but never practice. I had a a period where I was an antitheist, but this was due to religion confusing me, I didn't understand it. Then I met my partner, a christian guy, he opened my eyes to the concept of individuality. I am an atheist, but I am rather fascinated by the differences than hateful towards it.

1. Children are spoonfed with religion. What the parents believe is a big influence on what you will believe. 2. You must FEAR God! He can do whatever he wants with you. So people do not dare to look the other way. It is actually very easy to burst the bubble. You just need to ask questions. But when you confront a believer, give a thousand arguments that doubt the existence of God. They still see 'their' religion as the truth. I have no doubt that people are brainwashing eachother without knowing it.

Always watch you videos man , fell in love with these topics a few years ago . Hope your well and are able to upload soon . Love to you all

U are doing an amazing job... I am from India; it is the most diverse country in the world concerning various religions... Coming from this type of place, I've been to churches, temples, mosques etc. At a point in time, I started to question the myth of religion. When I asked, none around me knew the apt answer. Some started to call me an atheist. Some really didn't understand my question itself... After coming to this channel, I really am satisfied with my expectation and will guide me through and help me find the answer to my doubts... THANK U once again...

Christian as a kid, full-blown atheist thereafter, and now convinced spiritualist after unexpectedly awakening with LSD. Wonder if I’ll end up back where I began.

You are very intelligent and respectful for taking in others viewpoints while still holding onto your own. I grew up in the LDS religion and found that it hurt my view on any spirituality for years. I deeply appreciate you bringing forward your point of at-one-ness. Have a blessed day, you earned your like.

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you are looking healthy brother, keep taking care of yourself, even if your videos views doesn't meet your expectations just keep grinding this is great content just wish more people could see it, inshallah. Peace All blessings to you, praises to the most high.

Hello friend, hope you are well. Keep making videos! Love your content, and I hope all is well in your life.🌌 Just a fan checking in lol

Great video as per usual!

I love this channel so much. Thank you for making so many interesting, entertaining, and logical videos. I also am wondering if you have looked into the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. I would really like to hear your thoughts on this topic.

Understated channel, deserves more attention

I would love to see another trip report after you've grown/developed this much!

At First I was hesitant towards this video. But your point makes a lot of sense. However the earlier points are being more and more used and frequent, which is why there is so many terrible conflicts due to religion. The thing is, science points towards the same. Alan Watts tried to explain the oneness of the universe through science. Neuroscience is a great science that is really helping us understand ourselves! There is so much progress in science and in spirituality. We need to be the new profets and spread this message! It would be so helpful to so many people!!

i love your videos it makes me feel better about everything i feel i thought i was weird

Good work brother.

You should make a video where you visit a leader of each religion in an attempt to be convinced/converted

Good video ❤️ spread love

Well done!

I just want to share my thoughts on the subject. Also, you forgot to mention the afterlife as one of the reasons for the existence of religion. I was raised Catholic, and at a young age I developed this innate need to make sense of the world around me. I remember questioning my mother and the priests about certain beliefs and traditions in the faith. I also quickly took notice of the hypocrisy and contradictions among the people who preached the faith. It wasn't until my time in the military when my "faith" was fully shattered by my experiences in the world. I just want to say that while I am not a believer of any god today, I understand the feeling of spirituality and the need to want to be part of a bigger community. However, it is so frustrating to see your species constantly drive itself to conflict because of it's tribalistic nature. And whether it's religion, politics, or land that is being disputed, the results always contradict the goal of all scripture. Spreading and finding inner peace ✌️.

I love Psychology and the main reason why humans need something to believe is sometimes for escapism, curiosity, life meaning and understanding. Being able to understand life at a higher level than animals means that we have the ability to understand love, compassion, hate, forgiveness, cruelty, fairness, unity, equality and morality. For these things i named is where the Philosophy and conduct code of most religions usually come from. I would say the greatest of these is peace, respect and love. For without those 3 there are nothing.

Hope you come back soon bro

I like what you said about enlightenment. It is true that some things cannot be adequately explained in a way that other people will understand it the way i do and that sucks. We have to hope they find this way of thinking themselves

WOW this is something I just thought of today like word for word, it's so refreshing to see that someone else thinks the same way

It's always been interesting how siblings born mere hour's or day's apart from the same set of parent's can be so different on psychological level's.

Thank God, I’m not religious anymore.

The propensity for religion has the primary "function" of binding a group together as cooperation is our greatest evolved survival attribute. Even our evolved capacity for language is for human interaction and cooperation. God is the idealization of both the tribal leader as well as the group identity. Your experience of at-one-ment is not likely something most people can achieve as most people are too mundane/outwardly orientated but I too have had this profound experience beyond words. Death and resurrection stories are about this experience as Jesus went within himself. The experience is so profound that being reborn is an appropriate metaphor. The oneness experience may be an aspect of the feeling of unity within a tribal group/church. The writers of the Bible recognized the innate need for identifying with a group when they wrote "man can not live by bread alone but also by the word of God." The success of religious leaders depends on there being many willing sheep. Religion and spirituality overlap but aren't the same with spirituality being more of a personal experience.

well said. I am atheist and an antitheist, but also spiritual. people are confused by this as they believe you must be religious to be spiritual. We have this spirit of life and we feel connected to the things around us in this world and within this cosmos.

Religion is fraught with problems. The biggest is preachers who don't want you to think for yourself. That's a big red flag. If asking questions is forbidden, run.

Fear of the unknown and death are big contributors to religious beliefs.😐🤔

I'll tell you why people have the need for religion, they don't accept death, they need to believe that there is another better life after death.

Finding the truth is gutt wrenching. But after which is liberation but I now feel walled in because of so much ingrown ignorances feels like a threat to me. Over time I hope to be able to express openly love again but are so far away or not apparent for communication other than digital. Robotic but lacking something!

I find it hilarious that the midroll ad is a commercial for jesus

Good points. Humans are full of passion (Fire, the heart).

Christianity is strange to me because it has prophecy in the book of Revelation about the second coming. I had a strange experience where I heard the word "Rapture" audibly in my head by a voice that was not my own. (it was like thinking a thought, but it wasn't).

It was a very interesting video. I'm 15 yr old at the moment so i'm pretty young and naive for choosing a religious life. I'm gonna start reading Bible and quran to get to know whith ibrahamic religions. Thank you for all of these information that you shared in this video

religion give us hope... great video..can you make how to deal existential crisis and find meaning,purpose,passion in life..

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really good

you should all look at string theory

Im religious because it makes me a better person : strong , charismatic , knowledgeable ,merciful , loving , optimistic , energetic , healthy , clear minded , smarter , responsible , mature , forgiving , kind , generous , respectful , patient , thankful , grateful , peaceful , calm ... etc

I've been thinking the same thing lately!!

If I may ask? why do some people feel God presence and actually hear him?

I spent 15 years of my life denying religion, believing that I myself was enlightened by denigrating faith and living by pure reason. I spent much of that time feeling that something was missing. As I've reencountered spirituality and come to embrace it I've learned that humans are as much spiritual beings as we are rational beings. Faith and reason are not contradictory but complimentary. In the same way we need to feed the body with sustenance, the mind with knowledge, we need also to feed the soul with wisdom. Spirituality, like science, is a quest for truth. A way of understanding reality. Unfortunately, it can also be misused. Religion can't fully explain the scientific world. And vice versa, science cant fully explain the spiritual. They each, nonetheless, have their respective domains.

Thats the conclusion i came in a discussion with my brother.. its interesting to see others coming to same conclusion. Technically everyone is God, i am the God of my consciousness, you are the God of your conciousness cuz if i die, you do not exist, nobody exist, the world don't even exist (to my perspective) and same for you, if you die, nothing else matters, I don't exist and nobody exist, again from the perspective of ur conciousness. So we are all "God" methaphorically and belief in itself is a good thing, cuz u you believe strongly enough, you will act according to that belief. Some people even die for their believes. So if you believe you so good at Soccer, there is a good chance you will become, as long as you act upon that belief.

I feel the same way

I agree but the masses are so damaged they can't convert their conscious to a none dual social structure. I feel like I'm going alone through the none dual spiritual rebirth. So valuable after the false religion doctrines has been revealed. Somehow it seems like very few people have the courage to denounce from man made religious ideologies such as I have after diving deep in. As a result I'm freed in a society the is so disgustingly spiritually dysfunctional. How to manage in the world now? I'm not running to a mountain or forest for the rest of my life. The middle way is the only way I'm striving for. Thanks for speaking on this hot lie on humans that dares to join.

M not comfortable in relagion society. I really fed up.

You should look into jungs red book

Why does it matter whether your religious on not. I was baptised into the Catholic faith, that's where it ends. I've never had any desire to go any deeper than that. I'm cynical about power and money in all religions. Some are still being run like it's the 10th century. We're all individual's, either your good or your bad, action. ✌️☘️

7:32 describes Buddhism.

3:30

I grew up knowing about God but I wasn’t really religious until I turned 18 now I’m 23 and super religious

I believe we are subject to religion because God put it within our hearts. We have a soul and spirit which are eternal. The fact that we have a moral compass and understand it is not entirely accurate or foundational on our ethics, proves God exists and has a higher standard.

Why did you put taoism logo and talk that its about god and stuff

It is wrong to say, that such Realisation cannot come through rigorous thought and that the mind is equal to whatever is called here ego. Nothing thought of and realised therefore Happens away of the mind. Rather, the right thought and state of mind is, what enables it, and correspondingly, the wrong one inhibits it. Its seems therefore, that what can be sensebly called Ego, with its mostly negative conotation is at least a 'state of mind', and consequently root or mere Essence of wrong thinking. That Ego now, which only Refers to the inevitable Individuality of our experience is Neither right or wrong, but simply a fact of experience. To destinguish both, and the mind and its states is of crucial importance to avoid Error. I would even argue, that only logical thought can lead to understanding, which would otherwise only get Scratched at by Intuition or other Genuine experience, which themselves are already grounded in the Nature of the mind, which follows Logic, as everything Else too. The best viable path is therefore what is called here Philosophy. For many have Intuitions, that can lead them astray, If they dont nurish and are nurished by logical thought.

Wait. Transcend your mind sounds like learning to let go of intelligence. As if intelligence is such a burden that we wish to return to being free of intelligence and become "enlightened".

7:00 bruh I was with you until you started rambling about "spiritual" mumbo jumbo. It's a dirty word - "spiritually" because thousand people mean a thousand things with that word. There is no point in even talking if you're going to use such vague terms as spiritualu, god etc.

Religion is not spirituality nor does it address it. Religion addresses the human soul but not spirit! Soul and spirit are two completely different things! Religion is humanity manipulation! Gnosticism is not a religion and a way of life! Knowledge and wisdom is gnosis!

Also, the human brain is wired to anthropomorphize non anthropic things.

Have you read about studies that have concluded that humans have a natural inclination to believe in the supernatural. That inclination is filled in early life and modified through a person's life and that atheism is also adoctrinated into people.

May be infinity is God

It’s a cope with death. That’s it.

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HOOOOOOLY cow I just checked out the rest of your channel, and dude. You’re on a sailboat headed nowhere 😂😂 I genuinely feel sorrow for your psyche, as I’ve been where you were maybe for a year, but it seems like you’ve been here a long time… I hope the best for you man.

hello!

You lost me at 6:30

I just heard someone at pollo tropical say that true happiness is believing in God and in my mind I'm saying. You work at pollo tropical. You probably can barely pay rent now true that it doesn't mean you'll be happy but that just seems like a lack of knowledge and desire to be successful. How can believing in something that humanity has forced down our throats make you happy when nothing happened again and obviously did back when if you had and IPhone back then they would have thought you were and God as well. Why can't those thongs happen now when we truly understand. I guess we will never know.

As a Christian what you said almost made sense up and to the point that all of reality is you. That makes no sense whatsoever. Every single human being is an individual and there is a common spirit within us. The spirit that lives within us is the spirit God that created everything but we are not it, it is in us. And the reason why we can’t be it, why we can’t be God is because we did not create ourselves we did not create the stars in the sky we didn’t think of that and it came to be, you can’t manifest creation only God, the only entity that existed before existence did. That’s why every human being wonders of the spiritual aspect of existence is because literally the human mind cannot fathom the idea of a being that lives outside of its own creation. I was once you debunking Christianity and every other religion saying they’re basically all the same and that it’s just to bring division. But it’s not it’s the answer that everybody’s looking for Jesus is the answer everyone is looking for if you really look into it. With a lens to see the truth and not to conform even to it but to find the truth beyond what you’ve been told

Because they want a prize in the end

People have been religious beacuse there is a real spirit world whit real spirit powers.

Well, your intro got me interested but then you you ruined it at about 3:40 with your snarky remarks about the Bible and God's character.

Hey i think still you don't know about Hinduism🕉️ please research about it

Where are you bro? ate too much shrooms?

Only a fool says in his heart “there is no God”.

Wyatt archeological research will show you if a god is real and which one is real!

I've watched all 12½mins of this video. Twice. It simply waffles around reasserting the assertion that people are religious, which is manifestly true. But some of us want to know WHY we are. If any explanation is offered here it is quite elusive, and certainly not a bit profound.

I beileve in god but not religion

Isn't this just a promotion of another religion? I'm not saying it already exists but you're telling me to believe in the anthropomorphism of infinity and the existence of a common consciousness with it, furthermore you speak of this from the position of one who already believes it so you are basically preaching. Lastly, telling me this theory and then saying "it's not a conclusion you come to by rationalizing" is basically saying 'yo, imma tell you something but don't question it'. This sounds shaky if you ask me

Just a little precision, at 3:23 you claim that the Judaism claims to be the only one and only truth. This is not the case, Judaism does not make this claim, and it is mainly for this reason that Jews has not been proselytising. Judaism is not the ONLY way, Judaism does not make this claim. And Judaism was not created “2000 years ago” but more 3000 ago, 1300 BCE when Moses received the Torah from HaShem. And just for your knowing, Judaism actually has the concept of oness with HaShem (God), HaShem is one, there is nothing but HaShem. You are HaShem

Its actually very simple. Spirituality is NATURAL and has ALWAYS EXISTED. Where as religion is MAN MADE creation. One is directly from the SOURCE(GOD) where the other is MANS INTERPRETATION of that source.🤷‍♂️ U dont need any religion to be spiritual, it is naturally in u from the creator💯🙏. EX muslim

The universe is God. I dont give a shit who created the universe.

Because humans die

Your arrogance and pride is astoundingly high

Don’t be deceived bro. Trust Jesus

As-salamu alaykum WaRahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu Wyeth Translation: Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon you Wyeth 😇 That is a Beautiful name Worry not I am a Pure One Here - as a messenger from the Lord of the Lords Meeting you at a decreed time in your life You will obviously respond as a Believer in me Because you know very well that disbelief is what will lead the masses to the eternal fire of hell which has been communicated to humanity through many messengers and prophets… may peace be upon them all ✨ May Allah protect us from the fire. Ameen. Muhammad is As Allah has made it a Firm Truth Unshakeable Muhammad Is The Messenger of Allah And the Seal of the Prophets Peace be upon him It is not a tool to control the masses It is the truth delivered to humanity through the messenger of Allah - The One - and Only - God Oneness - yes - surely Allah IS The ONE Your Lord is watching our every move If Allah wills… we will become best friends Wyeth 🥰 You are doing righteous work on Earth Guiding humanity towards awakening Away from duality Into the infinity - Oneness The Prophet has not lied Nor is he mad But he is a slave messenger, highly honored and he has completed the Religion of the One in whose Hands is your soul Allah Islam is His Religion And it will never perish But Jesus Christ - peace be with him - The Spirit of Allah will return to Confirm Islam to the World - in the end of times… Who am I? You know… 🥰 As-salamu alaykum WaRahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu 😇 Continue to spread the word Dear One - and do it with even more vigor and passion and show them what is Love by being merciful♥️ Smile now😇 - I am one of the believers ✨

Because they want to be lied to.

Humans are not religious beacusw political games power play of pol'ticians and priest of islam and Christinity which makes human religious. Alaway remember that those power playing politicians and priests and religious and political leaders of islam and christinity are themselves not religious and like rich and elite people. The real god and re'ligion and money and power so this alll powerplayets use common and poor men by making them religous for money and power.

Religion is necessary for us to have a true and authentic relationship with the Most High God (as opposed to just following any god). re·li·gion /rəˈlij(ə)n/ noun the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods. (A deity) "ideas about the relationship between science and religion" Similar: faith belief divinity worship creed teaching doctrine theology sect cult religious group faith community church denomination body following persuasion affiliation a particular system of faith and worship. plural noun: religions "the world's great religions" a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. The God/deity/ Superhuman power that we worship, abide by, and are religious to is the One Who created us (the Creator), the Most High God.