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Why make it more complicated than it need be? Probably because that's what we do.
Our brains evolved to solve problems, and made more problems for us at the same time. In a sense, humans are more complicated than they need be. As a group, we have great difficulty living with uncertainty. We're a lot happier with myths as answers than with no answers at all, it seems. Anything to dampen those "scary" feelings.
Here's what one of the most famous (or notorious?) agnostic/atheists had to say about that:
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx
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