Why do most people need a religion or faith in a "god" ?   stance: it's an natural instinct similar to our survival instinct:
Indeed, why?
It's mere presence should be as unusual as a 1 in 10 million genetic mutation. It should not be a part of what we are. We are the by product (let us say) of millions of years of evolution in a world of chance that has no God. All of physics and chemistry teaches us that everything on one side of an equation is represented in another form on the other side of the equation. In this case
No God plus No God plus No God throught millions of years of evolution equals a species with a NEAR universal pursuit of God. How did that get in the equation?