Why Study Religion?

This was my first essay in the University. Why Study Religion? It seems as if there has never been a time known to man when there has never been a religion in some guise or another. Nor has there been a race of people who have never tried to practice it in some shape or form. The study of religion should not be regarded as a new venture for mankind or a new idea that …

…to be the reality, then what instrument could possibly measure his bliss? Are we really here on this earth just to be tested, or is religion something that is just merely an expression of the workings of the human heart, mind and imagination? Let us not be ignorant. If there is a Truth of an afterlife to be sought after, then let us try to find it`s face smiling before it finds ours grieving.