My personal reasons why I believe religion was made and why I think it's all BS. (MY OPINION!)

God probably isn't real. There are many reasons, however, my reasons are a little more weird than others. Most people would say "god isn't real because there is no evidence" and that is a true statement. We do not have any factual evidence of god existing except a Bible/Quran/wtver that is written by man. 

But, I personally have an idea. Religion exists because of fear. Fear of what exactly? Well, many fears actually.

Fear of death, for example. The aspect of heaven and hell. Paradise and misery after death. This was created for a sense of comfort. A sense of comfort that you won't actually die, but live in a paradise that you earned because you did good in life. A sense of comfort that your loved ones aren't fully dead but are actually looking from above and seeing your accomplishments. Man created this picture-perfect image of despair and bliss so that they don't fear death and what comes after. You were good in your short-lived life? You get to be in a utopia where everything you need is there. Oh, wait, you weren't good? Than you get the misery that even Satan won't crave. It's funny, fear even makes people be in line. 

Or, for another example, fear of curiosity. This might be confusing for some of you. Why would humans, animals so intelligent and curious, be scared of the thing they were made for? Simple. Terror. Being terrified of what's out there, of the things that aren't in the happy little box that you keep yourself in. New ideas terrify humans. That was one of the reasons for the Salem witch trials. They were scared of the idea that woman weren't as stupid as people thought they were. Terrified that maybe, because of intelligent woman, and or as they called them "witches", they were losing wars and being gotten rid of. They were scared. Fearful of new ideas. So, they said "we are doing this for god." blaming a non existent entity and innocent women for their failures, being scared that women were curious, even as curious as them. They blame god for this. Or, lets take our generation for example. Equality being the curiosity that men are fearful by. Curiosity of equality within all human kinds being what THEY are fearful of because the idea of that was foreign to them. Because they don't understand and the curiosity of the younger generation terrifies them. So, they blame prejudice for being faithful to their god. 

Those are 2 major examples I go by. 

God doesn't exist. Mankind is just fearful of the things they don't understand. So they just say "God is the reason."