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"Why do we constantly argue / debate over religion? Why is it so important for others to share our views on these matters?"
We all want to believe that we know at least a little bit about the biggest matters in our lives, and faith and religion guide these hopes personally and socially (respectively). Differences we encounter in other people are jarring, usually because our lives and decisions have so much invested in the beliefs that guide them.
As far as religion goes, I think most of the differences in religion on earth today are clearly anthropomorphic, and reflect a subjective worry in ourselves rather than a world-view. Religion is a personal, subjective law competitive with civil law, with the luxury that we ourselve actually compose our beliefs, rather than having them thrust upon us as in civil law. Our authorship of our beliefs nutures a very healthy confidence in their veracity -- we just know what we know.
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less I say, smarter I am
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