Why do I pray to God every day ?

  This is my view on the history of Religion . I know it's simple but Just some thoughts I have on the subject.Gods became men. Lot's of Gods. We get Greek and Roman mythologie­s which is what Christiani­ty is most closely based upon. These Gods even behaved much like their human counterpar­ts basically having a giant Soap Opera in the sky. They had human foibles and did all sorts of human things like love and hate and mess around on each other sometimes with other Gods and sometimes with humans creating half gods.
Finally the Jewish people took the big step and narrowed all those confusing gods down to just one. This explains the commandmen­t, "Thou shall not have any Gods before me". The people of the time actually thought that there we other Gods and were told that this new and improved God was better than all those Gods.
And so on.
My point is, your brain has been hard-wired by evolution to deny death. From what I have observed, there is a common thread between all religions and it's not how many Gods there are or what they stand for exactly, it's the belief that in one way or another we never die.
That thought is completely irrational­. We see things die around us every day, we just can't accept that it applies to us as individual­s as well. If you do not fear death, there is no reason for religion. Most people, biological­ly fear death. Only the mind can free you of your fear.

Then why do I pray to God every day ?  I don't know. Sometimes you can't think about religion too much but just take comfort from it. I do believe though that the God our churches talk about can't be as they portray . How can a God create man in his image ,with free will, and demand that he must accept 100% that he,God ,is real?  Please do not give me that crap about faith. I believe that if God was real he would judge a man, who had doubts,  in a better light if he lived his life according to Christian morals and law. Why should a man that follows Christian beliefs, because he is scared of death or Hell, be granted an afterlife?  It seems that a man who lives a good life because it is the moral and right thing to do would be granted an afterlife too. How about  men who grew up in other faiths ; are we to believe that God would turn his back on these millions just because they are not Christians. No this can't be true and this is the problem I have with Religion that is created by men.  I am not sure if there is a God or an afterlife. I am not sure how or what I even bekieve in. I do know that all I can do ,as a man, Is to try to lead a clean and honerable life and the end result be damned.