I believe that everyone needs something to believe in.
Religion gives people a means to explain the world around them.
People want things to make sense.
Our minds are pattern matching machines, there has to be some pattern that explains what we experience. The world is too complex for us to understand, and that makes people uncomfortable.
Having faith in something that ties it all together gives us that continuity. It helps us explain the unexplainable. We want people to agree with us. If people agree with us, then we feel like we are right.
Spreading our religion gives us this confirmation. Pushing our religion on others makes us feel like we are helping them to feel as comfortable with the world as we are.
But what if they are already comfortable?
What if they don’t want to be comfortable?
What if they find comfort in the unknown?