[Monthly Essay] What makes us human.

The definitive characteristic of human being is Religion because it's what we believe in and pass it on to generation to generation. Religion is what separates us from everything else in the world. This is why we  have a good feeling on what's right or wrong. It is the respond to our questions.
Religion makes us human because it's what we've been taught with our lives.
     Humanity use to be together  but then all divided because people changed there beliefs, made new ones, made new morals and religion.  Our background is what we believe in, if someone tells us otherwise about what we believe in we get sensitive about it and all defensive to because we don't someone telling us what we've grew up with all our lives. Religion is the one of the many reasons why we have fights, discrimination and wars. For example, The Crusades. They fought to restore          Christian control to the holy land and that war lasted 3 centuries . Think about it Religion makes us who we are right now, the majority of the times our actions reflects on our religion and beliefs. We have a belief that we follow, like I believe in God and I know almost everything I do is a sin and it won't stop for as long as I live, but I just have to believe and have faith in God.  We all know the difference of what's good and bad mostly of religion because it's what have been learning our lives.
     Religion is what separates us from animals and other living things. For example, Muslims pray 5 times a day and what does animals do? Or flowers? Nothing that really has to do with religion just hunt and take care and for the plants they just stay there. Animals only go with groups of there own kinds the wild or be pets. They don't have any God or religion so far as we know.
There is no human out there without no beliefs because there's always have to be someone believing in  something if  People don't believe in God then obviously they believe in Science or some weird miracle that happened to create this world. Believing is one of the keys to Religion because without belief in your own religion you're just deceiving everybody and is an atheist at heart. For example, if you're forced to go to church with your parents and curse in church and show no respect to the Church what so ever you're dissing God and betraying him which is one thing that makes you so sinful.
     I think Religion is made up for answers to questions that everybody asks. Like, one question is Who created the universe? Who created this world? Christians believe that God created the world slowly day by day and it took him seven days to create it. And Atheist believes that this world was created by the big bang.  Another question that people ask is why do people look like this. As in having two eyes one nose, etc. We actually don't know why but in my religion we believe that God just created Adam and Eve and those were the first humans ever. Right now we only look like we do cause of Adam and Eve, but that's just me and that's what I think.
How to live Correctly? What's right or what's wrong? In the Holy Bible they're are 10 commandments. It's basically a list that you must not do. Another thing in the Bible it says all glory to God which means everything you do is for God. Another example of an answer on how to live correctly is following the Five Pillars of Islam which is faith, charity, praying, fasting and pilgrimage.  Religion is a life style of what people go by so they can live a good life. We know the consequences when we do wrong and for Christians if we kill someone we'll go to hell if we don;t ask for forgiveness and keep on killing continually
     Now this is the biggest question. Where do you go after you die? A lot of people uses religion just to hear what they want to hear which might be dying and living a paradise after life in Heaven. For example, being a Christian or Catholic. People don't want to just die and not go anywhere, they want to live in Paradise. But what most people don't know is if you die you don;t go straight to heaven or hell, you have to wait until Jesus come back and that's Judgement day , when the world ends. We'll never know when the world will end.
     To me Religion is what makes us. Everyone has a religion weather you're a Christian, Muslim, Atheist and all the others deep down. Religion in my opinion is what you believe in when it comes to how this world is created, where do you go when you're dead and questions like that. We all have the same questions but different answers, that's where all these religions fall in place. They fill in those answers but makes more questions for us as in, who created God? People ask that question because everybody comes from something. Religion has been answering almost every question that's as common like , "Why did the apple fall off the tree?" "Cause God made it fall" Since the beginning of time. People changes there religion for a lot of things but a couple of them are is because they're convinced or because they need it. For example, I have a friend that use to believe in God but bad stuff kept on happening to him so now he doesn't believe in god and is an atheist.  .
     Religion is a the definitive characteristic of a Human being because it's been passed down since the beginning of time. There is no other species out there other than us who have religion. Religion is a life style and an answer to a lot of questions. Religion is what makes a human being.