Why people believe in religion?

I don't believe in any particular religion. I don’t have religious customs, cannot say religion is part of my life. However, I had some opportunities to think about religion. For example, my high school was Buddhism school (I didn’t know until entrance ceremony though) and I visited some religious buildings and saw religious paintings. When I saw these things, I doubted and marveled that the reasons so many people attracted religions for long years. They spent a lot of time, money, manpower to make and protect religious things.

Although I felt understood the reason many people fascinated religion when I read THE INFORMATION written by James Gleick.

This article is about information theory thought by Claude Shannon and there are two sentences I thought could connect with religion.

Frist,

 “Some messages may be likelier than others, and information implies surprise. Surprise is a way of talking about probabilities.”

I think the “surprise” is one of the reasons people appeal, because religion tell us new information through some media. For example, sermon by clergy, the Bible and a person who have faith in religion. These new information make people surprise and impress, people believe in religion. In other words, “surprise” lead to people’s faith.

Second,

“ Information is closely associated with uncertainty.”   

This sentence also associates with religious. In religion, “uncertainty” is important. This is because, religion is thought that if you believe any particular religion, the God might relieve you”. The degree of ” believe” is uncertain. That is why if you don’t relieve, the cause is the lack of your piety not the God. In short, by the uncertain information is a reason religion last for a long time.

That is why I think religion attracts  people for many years.