It is the desire of each of us, no matter how primitive, to one day look at ourselves and wonder how we came to exist, how did the world come into existence. To look up into the sky and wonder how everything up there got there. We will always ask. And to ask each other what they think is the answer. Every group then decides certain answers to those questions are the real answers and raises all their children to have those same answers. We all like to be with those who believe as we do and gravitate to being together. It is exposure to other groups, or individuals who have a different answer where than those ideas start to change. But the looking around, seeing ourselves, each other, the world and everything in it and the heavens, we each have to ask where did we come from and why are we here? Religion gives the answer to an inner need. How can one look at ourselves and everything, in it's tremendous complexity and intricate clockwork like co-existence that makes everyone know there is something that not only did this, but keeps it going. Strip anyone of all preconceived ideas, grow them up in a sterile environment where these things are not mentioned at all and still, the questions will be asked and some answer searched for and latched on to. Nothing will keep the questions and need for an answer out. For the atheist, he will always only have a partial answer in that there can never be a why. And the only way to shut that voice up is to say there is no why. But it is that inner need that is the real question----why does each one of us have it at all? Where does that need spring from? There again, those with religion have an answer, their God put it there---the atheist, can not answer it.
