What causes religion?

[diwana]

Re: What causes religion?

@squidward_tentacles

But isn’t that the question at hand? There must be a root cause for the existence of 21 major religions and 400 other belief systems that exist today. Call it rules sent down from God, or man made rituals, there is a cause for everything.

The ‘cause’ is ‘need’. If you must ask this way.