We know that the ancient civilitations used to have people for explain the sourronding and hostile natural wild world.
Fats are sturborn. Many people don't bilieve in the religion because of behaviour of priest and hierarchs but others have a strong necesity of believe. Why?
The humans are gregarious animals. This is our natural form of survivance in that sourronding hostile. The feel of group, family and bilieves , diference each people than others ones. So that the believe is an important part of our feels.
These believes were leaded for priests when we started the history. As far as I know the divine eageness is diferent from religion. The first is a personal choice the second is a social conditioning. That is the point. We are conditioned not only by the "holy text" self otherwise for the cultural traditions that don't helped people to have free opinions. So we are prisioners of a cultural mould and we need to do a effort for surpass that moulds.
Today we have a dificult confront between religions and cultures. The main problem is that same religions are so impositives that all aspects of the live are regulated. from policy to sexual behaviour and in this cultural context is not acceptable because in occidental culture we have had many revolutions to be free from all ancient traditions that obstruct the scientific knowledge and the happines of the people.