The Rambler's rambles

It's been around half a year since I watched a Doctor Who episode. Let me just say that I'm incredibly lazy and my TV watchlist is already backlogged as it is. I was just done with "Blink" and about to finish season 3 and then I just stopped and moved onto Breaking Bad. So this is still technically my primary thoughts since I haven't watched the new series in its entirety and I also haven't watched the old Doctor Who in the 20th century. Doctor Who has a huge following that is almost religious. Every single person on the internet seems to be a fanatic and love the show. People are claiming that David Tennant is a god while other claim that Matt Smith is the better Doctor. Anyways, the whole pandemonium served to make me more intrigued by the whole phenomenon. There had to be something about the show that appealed to so many people. To cut to the chase, Doctor Who did interest me at first that I continued watching until season 3. I liked the fiction side ...

Warning: Very controversial ideas. This can be considered somewhat offensive. Viewer discretion is advised. Would religion be followed as much if there weren't benefits? I've noticed that the common thread between each religion is reaping the rewards after some amount of labor/worship. But my question is, if you took that away, is there any point in believing in a deity? Let's set up a hypothetical example. Say there's your typical god and he builds the world and all that. He makes the animals and life because he's just bored and wants amusement. After that, the animals might know about this god, but what if the god simply didn't desire praise? No matter what, these animals would die with no afterlife even if they begged the god. Then what? What's the point of worshiping this god anyways if it doesn't give you anything. All it did that was noteworthy was create all beings. I get the feeling that there might be some feeling of thanks for the creation,...