Dear Mika,
While you may not be able to understand why religion exists, I'm still in awe that anything exists. The question still applies: Why is there something instead of nothing? It's an important question.
With it comes awe of our own existence. I didn't choose to create myself. Questions like:
- Who am I?
- Why do I exist?, and
- What is expected of me?
need to be answered for any semblance of real peace. These most fundamental questions that the mind ponders can only be answered by God - and religion claims to have been given divine communication to answer them. This is divine Revelation or the Word of God.
The scientific method is good for analyzing objects and movements as secondary causes, but it can say nothing about an ultimate cause, meaning and purpose. It also cannot speak to what might be transcendent of the matter-time-space realm. Revelation and reason enables us to understand ourselves and know how to love each other, since God is Love and we are His image.
Check out this video St. Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways as a Path Back to Catholicism for the existence of God as well as these other videos from Catholic Answers and this Wikipedia page.
Reason alone can come to know that God exists. However, for relationship and intimacy to occur, grace (the supernatural gift of divine life) is necessary for the heart to seek and the mind to see. Anyone with a closed and hardened heart will never find Him.
Peace,
Paul
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