What is the psychology of belief?

I think that religion is a need to believe in something and people mostly respond that something as god and goddess after giving them a humanlike appearance. Greeks and Romans had the same gods but they wore different names. Egyptians had gods who had animal heads. But all the gods symbolised different phenomena in life or how people understood them. Jews' Jahveh, Moslems' Allah and Christians' God are all the same but different definitions of their own beliefs and morals. The people need to believe and what would be better to believe in than their own nations best and worst attributes?

I think everyone needs to believe in something. It's comforting to know that when things go wrong, something will be there to take care of you when nothing else will be. Superstitions and religious beliefs make people think that they have some control over what happens to them, and this is really comforting to them at a time of need.

When people believe in a certain concept, or idea, they will follow it no matter what. Even other people advices or coax, they will not listen, nor they will give it a dam*. So, religion or belief or not, it might be the psychology of following in.