ord, faith others, or faith in a material object. Our daily lives involve faith on so many levels we cannot count the number of things we rely upon, our cars, our friends, or in God. Sometimes people use faith in others as a crutch for their fears or defaults. A good example is in football. On my team when games are played, people do not believe that as an individual they can make things happen. They rely on the handful of star players to pull it through for the rest of us. They have faith that these people will always come through when it counts, and when it doesn’t happen that way then they question themselves and curse those they used as a crutch to get through their problems. One theory I came across (as Jesse Ventura points out) that religion is the greatest crutch of all. This theory explains what they thing is origin of religion. Back when man could first talk and communicate with other humans there was much chaos in the world and no reasons to explain the actions that were happening all around him. This scared the first humans and naturally they needed someone to look up to, a leader of sorts. Someone or something that could be relied upon by others as an explanation for things, a scapegoat worshipped by all who believed. This primitive form of faith brought people to the idea of a higher power. They believed that if they could create someone for everyone to look up to and set laws then there would be no chaos. Thus the formation of a God-like figure came into play. This first idea of God would be used by those who belied to worship for material gain or for good luck upon themselves or others, then came the idea that maybe laws could be set up to regulate the behavior of people that is considered “unacceptable.” A creation of some type of “commandments.” Through this idea the leaders of the human race at the time could control those around them with the institution of an angry god a healthy” f...
