Why is religion still a thing?

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As the title states, I would like to know why people still choose religion rather than science, please give me your personal view and opinions.

I was christened at birth, but grown up an atheist. I'm just curious to know why so many people still believe in religion and god. Considering there's undeniable evidence that everything on earth is simply made of atoms and particles and wasn't created by an otherworldly person.

Hopefully this doesn't cause offence to some people, like I've said, just simply want others views.

Fear of death.
Religion will be around whilst people are afraid of death.

I don’t think that’s true though, I know it’s a common trope - no such thing as a dying atheist etc.

But many people are still scared of deaths but don’t become religious. Maybe having a religion does temper the fear of death sometimes but it doesn’t cause people to become religious.

@OMG12 you're completely correct, and as someone who has been very close to death by drowning on one occasion I can confirm that I had no religious feelings whatsoever. There wasn't even a lot of fear in it once I realised this was it, end of story. Obviously I made it, but in a way it was not scary.

Then again maybe I'm weird. I'm not afraid to die. I'm almost 56 and if all goes according to the way our family are, I've got 20 to 25 good years left in me. I'm planning a one way trip to Switzerland, funds set aside and all, once the good years are done. My kids are all aware and on board. Death is just not that big of a deal to me.

i think that’s a healthy attitude to have. I do believe in a higher power but it doesn’t affect my views on death -only life.

in a way death is a privilege -it is part of the amazing blessing we call life. We can’t have one without the other.

if people are only religious because they are frightened of what will happen on death, they have already failed what ever god(s) they believe in.

I love this from Richard Dawkins

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?Richard Dawkins