because life is a bitch and we want to know why were here.

I have not heard anyone asking about God for a long time.

"God" has been with us presumably since we became conscious, which makes it our go-to position. I suspect it's going to be a while before we are able to overturn the concept in favor of something better and more empowering.

Personally religion is not important, I agree. Sociologically, there are few forces more powerful....possible exceptions to language and the development of agriculture. My morbid fascination with religion is analagous to my morbid fascination with WWII. Both are disasterous on monumental scales and are windows on the human condition.

It's been around a century and a half since Darwin published the Origin of Species, in that time there has been a fundamental shift within Society in the Western world, from having a society in which 99.9% of people believed strongly in God and their religion, to a world in which many either have no significant feelings about religion or any particularly strong belief in God, or in many cases as the existence of this site demonstrates, a true grasp they both God and religion are man-made constructs of the imagination. Now it is true to say that in religious areas such as the bible belt in particular and elsewhere to boot, you are going to find people who still are true Believers, yet despite how aggravating these people may seem to those of us who have a grasp on reality, they are becoming the minority. When you study history, it must be acknowledged that a century and a half it's a relatively short stretch of time, in the end, in another century in half, I think it's safe to say that the religious adherents we represent nothing more than a tiny, lunatic fringe minority, but it must be faced that these things take time, change on such a scale does not happen after a dozen or so years or even decades, but rather, generations.

Why do people keep asking about god? I don't know why. I didnt know they did. Trying to find the answer to life i guess.

It gets a bit tiresome, doesn't it? Can't we just move on from god(s)?

I think it's a rather important question. What we believe about God, religion, morality, etc., is perhaps the most important influence in how we live life. Understanding what someone believes and why is a major way of understanding who they are as a person.