All of this stuff is just part of currently fashionable thought structures and cultural trends. It's perfectly true that religious belief is universal - while having multiple faces and styles and, particulary, unjustifiable propositions. This, as another commenter notes, can be related to being an infant surrounded by big nurturing powerful adults. It can also be "explained" by the fact that everybody dreams, including about dead relatives, and that everywhere there are people who have mystical experiences, which can "require" "explanations", which the simple-minded can get from a pre-packaged religion or from a materialist-reductionist set of ideas about biochemistry which insist on (so far also unsustainable) "ideas" about "consciousness". All of this flocking back to the Bible is also, ultimately, silly and unsustainable if it (a) ignores any relevance of, say, Hinduism, or the belief structures of Aboriginal Australians; and (b) is uncritical about historical, psychological and archeological and literary understandings and New Testament analyses from the last couple of centuries. It's no good going back to squabbling small-minded sects, and heretics, and excommunication, and post-death rewards (instead of improving living societies), it's just pathetically inadequate. It's also perfectly right that Nietzsche understood that the collapse of a consensus about an underlying spiritual foundation is what led to the horrors of totalitarianism, not that we didn't have any vicious alpha males long before the rise of Christianity, and to the madness of post-modernism and the sickness displayed in modern art and architecture. That doesn't mean we suddenly find the "truth" "again" in the contradictions and dogmatism of scriptures, rather than in, say, modern philosophers and scientists exploring the nature of consciousness, or moving forward into a new and less narrow-minded (left-brain-hemisphere-focussed) Enlightenment. (But that will lead to complicated truths, won't it, and people prefer simple ones.) I'd just love to discover one born-again intelligent Christian who could go through, paragraph by paragraph, two books - Christopher Hitchens's "God is Not Great" and Sam Harris's "The End of Faith" - and sensibly and intelligently refute every single paragraph without losing their temper and sounding like a gullible self-justifying idiot. The universe is bigger than we are, and doesn't seem to have as big a head as we claim for ourselves. Firstly, look at all the evidence which annihilates the "simple" ways in which people fond of astrology use it and defend it. Then decide that everything to do with astrology is rubbish. Then read "Cosmos and Psyche" by Richard Tarnas, and tell me you're still quite so confident that you know what is going on in the universe because you "understand" - or because you "have faith". People can't help their intelligence level, but really, they are just so bloody naive.