Why do believers believe those silly things?

[DemPGH]

Human beings have a desire to understand not only what happens, but why it happens. When they couldn't know, because they had built neither the technology nor built the knowledge, they invented myths and religions to explain it. Why is very often a component of any religion / myth. The Sun is there. Why? If you have the answer to that, you get a lot of power over how people think and can conduct inquisitions and so forth. (Actually, myths go back to pre-history when humans made images of fish gods and all kinds of deities)

Now as time progressed and we explained the cosmic mysteries that stumped our ancestors, we invented the idea that God through some manifestation has a "personal relationship" with lowly us. Lowly us. That's why religion persists today. A lot of people need the assurance of that idea or need to appeal to the imagination because the physical world does not present enough mystery to them. So, there has to be some "deeper" mystery behind it. The sublime? God? Yeah. Thus, they invented the "supernatural." It extends to aliens and all the rest of it.