Religion

Personally, I do not believe in God or any other higher being. I believe that what happens happens for a reason. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it whatever you want, but that is it. What I believe is what I believe and the hundreds of millions of other things that other people believe in is what they believe in. There is no right, there is no wrong. People defend their beliefs because they believe in them and for some odd reason, they want other people to believe in their beliefs as well. I do not condone shoving one's religions or personal beliefs down the throats of others, but there is, however, a slight satisfaction in knowing that you are not alone in what you believe in. It is easy to feel alone in this world, no matter what you personally believe as opposed to the rest of society, and I think that is what Dostoyevsky is getting at in Notes From The Underground. No matter what you think, say, or do, you are always doing it to fit in at some basic level, consciously or not. You want to be accepted, however hard you might try to not be. Religion allows people to fit in with others, to be accepted, to be able to relate to a huge number of people that all believe in the same things that they do. It makes things easier. While I do not believe in or support the ideas and methods of organized religion, I understand why others do.