People tend to believe in god and try to be part of any kind of organized religions because they want to be protected. Followers of a religion would spread around how great their god was, they would tell stories about how their god create the world, how their god help everyone, how powerful he/she is, etc. Though stories from different religion are absolutely different, but honestly, it is not a problem!! It does not matter who create the world, if we can rest in peace in the heaven with Jesus, (any other God) after death, or if God can really control our faith, since personally I see religion and belief as a type of spirit repose.
People believe if they pray constantly or being an obedient worshiper, God would forgive their mistakes, would bless them to go through any difficulties, and would protect them during disasters. These beliefs actually can help people to release their stress and pressure. It can a be a good thing that hook people up with a positive living attitude as they believe God is always right next to them. HOWEVER, I can't refuse to admit that numbers of people were affected by their religion negatively, for instance, some of them would use the belief of forgiveness as an excuse to escape from the reality; when they failed, when they fall, they would pass the buck to the God, they sees the failure as a punishment from their God, and further more they considered it is better to go along with the failure instead of improving or attempt to change because they do not want to anger the God.
Unfortunately, along the rapidly changing environment, RELIGION TEND TO BE INVOLVED WITH POLITICAL ISSUE other than just being our spirit repose. And recently we can tell battles were always declared because of conflicts between religions. I believe if people no longer attempt to drag religion out of the political pool, people will soon to quit their belief because they see their religion is turning to be factor that mess between countries, and divide people which basically AN OPPOSITE POLE for being part of that religion. Such of a phenomenon was noticed by some political scientists as well, for example, Robert Putnam, an American political scientist states that, " Historically, about 5% of people identified as having no religion at all, Among young people, that figure is now 30%, it is a huge increase... That rapid increase in the number of young Americans who are dissatisfied with religion portends a drop in American religiosity over the years ahead. A growing of young people today are saying, 'Look, if religion is just about conservative politics and homophobia and so on. I'm out of here. That's not for me."
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