2) Observing people's tendency to be superstitious and seek a higher power, ultimate justice, which produced religion in the first place accompanied by a cultural familiarity with religion which leads them to express it in that way.
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I still have the instinct to pray when a loved one is dangerously ill or something and I don't know how much of this is caused by having been deeply religious and how much is innate but my daughter prayed to the sky when she was 3 and hadn't heard of the God idea.
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I tend to think it's a byproduct of our tendency to express everything in words. I also implore and threaten my technology when it doesn't work. Also our need to feel we are doing something and our sense that we should be able to make things happen by willing it hard enough.
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Richard Dawkins pointed out that its common to hear even atheists who have thought the whole thing through in depth say things like 'It is so unfair when children die of cancer and evil dictators die in their sleep at 90' as tho there is some ultimate system of justice somewhere.
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George Eliot I think remarks somewhere on how impossible god is yet how necessary the moral imperative.
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