https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/why-do-we-have-religion-anyway.html
Religion - a belief in and worship of a superhuman power, especially a personal God or gods.
- a particular system of faith and worship.
- a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
The one thing I see wrong with this definition is that God (being capitalized) is being written in the wrong format.
If you’re going to use the capital “G” that you would be referring to an intimate being who is capable of having a relationship, so this, in turn, would BE a relationship, not a religion.
This would only be referring to Christianity, because it’s the only socially constructed faith based relationship in the world. (And yes, I admit it’s socially constructed, because Jesus was a real physical social human being, and Christianity is based on the truth of His life and His purpose as the go between from death to life.)
So the purpose of religion, really, is a way for people to feel connected somehow to a spiritual realm that that gives them a reason for living and a way to live. We as humans have a need to connect with whatever inside of us (our souls) says is “out there”. We all have a hunger and a want to know what life is all about. This is where religions came from.
Our search for something spiritual.
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