These two things are synonymous with each other.
OK. I thought you were discussing the purpose for which you were made. You had written, "That is the reason why humans exist; to lessen the pain of other people." I don't believe that that is why I exist. That I would have such a purpose implies an intelligence behind my existence. My parents had reasons for being parents, and my mother always wanted me to be a physician, but lessening the pain of others was only one reason for that, and probably not the most important one, or she wouldn't have specified physician over healer.
Most of the time people speak of the purpose or which they were made, they're thinking of creator gods and their purposes. Perhaps you have no such beliefs. I don't.
I think I already implied with many of my posts that I do agree with this assertion. I am not anti-science.
OK again. I don't think I implied otherwise. You had also written, "Science cannot explain that through pure logic, theory or even through wisdom and sagacity." I was comparing the accomplishments of empiric systems of inquiry to faith-based ones, and noticed that you hadn't explicitly agreed or disagreed with either comment. Now you have explicitly agreed with the first half.
I also wrote, "Religions explain nothing. If science (empiricism) can't explain something, it can't be explained. Such lofty claims made for the religious "magisterium," but where's the beef? I can show you what the empiricists have come up with. It includes the technology to have this discussion globally and almost for messages to be sent and received almost instantaneously." When I don't see a rebuttal, I assume that that is because the other poster cannot show it to be incorrect (falsify it with rebuttal).
Myself and a lot of other people here have made claims as to why religion is important, you just keep dismissing it because you don't want to bear the truth that religion has done a lot of good in the world.
I agreed that it gives some people comfort.
Myself and a lot of other people here have made claims as to why religion is important, you just keep dismissing it because you don't want to bear the truth that religion has done a lot of good in the world. Religions will build churches and schools, feed the poor, aid the sick and there's actually a lot of things that many religions get right
That's not religion to me. That's people in religions doing what others do as well without religion. Religion is a faith-based worldview, and faith is sterile. No correct ideas are known through faith including religious faith, correct meaning demonstrably correct as opposed to unjustified belief.
Religion isn't necessary for any of that. Humanism addresses it all without gods or faith, just reason and compassion. Secular governments build schools, feed the poor, aid the sick, and do much more, and do it better and on a much larger scale than the religions. What did we see during the pandemic? Who created the vaccines? Who got them into arms? Who came to the aid of a nation in economic distress. Not the church. A few soup kitchens don't rate. I live in a Catholic country. The Catholic church did nothing here during the pandemic. It didn't lift a finger or spend a nickel. The local government provided the vaccines, and we took care of one another where there was need. Yet they want to be known as caring and charitable, but all they do is what I said - provide comforting words and tell those in need to pray. Then, when people step up, they claim God provided.