A walk in the park

Why did we start the need to believe in God.


As human beings when we felt the terror of the unknown, the fear of anything which lay outside our immediate experience, which in primitive man must have covered just about everything. The need to assign a guiding hand to explain the workings of something we couldn't comprehend was natural. From the many gods, each specific to the unexplained phenomenon, people gradually found the need to coalesce into one God. To simplify and create a hierarchy is a function of the human mind as it seeks to simplify and codify what's around. 
Today was an attempt to define God. Unless like the Muslim faith for instance with its strict rules and a fire and brimstone retribution,  people talk of 'gods love' as if it were in-line to that which we experience to other humans, a rich and complex experience which we find it hard to pin-point and understand in any rational way. The religious person would describe it as being an emotional gift bequeathed by the Commandment "Love Thy Neighbour". The Secularist would try to induce chemistry and pheromones but both would miss the essence of what loving meant still less  its complex and beguiling effect.
The myths and storytelling bound up in the Bible or the Koran are apocryphal having been handed down, often many years after the date when they were attributed and, as with any retelling became embellished.
Theocracies tend to control their flock with a measure of fear. The power base inhabited by the Priest has always relied on a mixture of the mystical and the Divine, in equal portions to concoct a story in which following a laid down path has rewards and deviation punishments. Seen from the Churches Establishment point of view, it's all about control, seen from the practising believer its "revelation".
The face of the Christian or Jewish preacher is often one of benign hope as they try to impart their love of God to the ungodly.  In contrast the face of the Academic is sharpened with ridicule, possibly contempt as they seek to unravel the myth with time lines and carbon capture.
The face of Science, as it slowly digs away is that of "I told you so", but the one thing they can't describe is the 'fervour of faith', be it in the beautification of the human spirit which is seen in the joy of revelation (what ever form it takes) or the dark side, a willingness to become a martyr and blow oneself up in the twisted sense of a religious course. These expressions of the human mind are beyond analysis, they depict a mind that has flown the nest and is roosting on a branch far away from the rational speculative scientific mind.
It's like trying to pigeon hole the difference between men and women. They are so alike and yet so different. We could spend years diluting the chemistry in the lab and would come up with some findings but it would not bring us any closer to the truth. We are so much more than a collection of cells in fact the interaction and interconnection between the cells has so many combinations, "it makes the Lottery seem like a walk in the park".