The evidence proves that since the remote past religion has been a part of our mental emotional make up. Even non believers usually agree that the term homo religiosus aptly describes the human experience. Men and women by their nature are religious, and efforts to eliminate religion as many social and political movements have done since the eighteenth century, come up short. They ultimately fail as badly as attempts to replace the family with party or friendship with ideology. Why has religion been so important to our experience as human? The reasons are not entirely clear, but one explanation is that the psychology of the brain has been so ordered that we are born with spiritual inclinations that lead us beyond ourselves. Some would argue that religion is in our bones. In a literal sense the writing of our brains, the chemistry of our organs, and the functioning of our senses lead us no, comple us, to follow a spiritual journey.