Why are people told to believe in God?

I'll tell you what I do really believe in, and I know it to be real and many believe in it too.

CONTROL....

Take all your gods, church systems, different faiths and so and and so forth and what you will have at the end of them all is a control system that the person must follow or they will be struck down in some form. Sorry, that'sa control system long before you attach any faith to it.

Look at what is going on in the world, humans have followed their faiths and beg their god to come down and fix all these problems going on in the world, it seems that calling is on deaf ears so we have started to see a new 'hope', a hope that aliens will come down and fix stuff for us.

Who is next on the lists of something people are going to put faith in rather than deal with it themselves.

I've been a victim of religion thanks to different religion parents in Northern Ireland, I've had the nuns tie my left hand behind my back to force me to use the right one because of some daft religious belief fostered by various religions, I guess I was lucky to have been born in 1961 as a few hundred years before and I would have been burnt as a with I guess.

So stop being lazy, deal with your own life, stop trying to get someone to fell you what you need to do, make the changes you need by common sense and not because a little book tells you its a sin.