Vonnegut on Religion

What the popular novelist and playwright Kurt Vonnegut wrote here is one interpretation of our need for religion, and I regard him as one of the most astute observers of human civilization.

Yet I submit the the principal driver of religion is fear. People who are terrified of death, or even chaos, need to believe in a celestial big brother to keep them from danger.

The rest of us would prefer to live in a universe that actually makes sense, and we accept that if that universe is indifferent to our well-being, as it most certainly appears to be, so be it.