Unanswered

Hmm.. Thanksgiving night my cousin and i had a convo about religion. It seems to always intrigue ppl that practice religion, that i am agnostic. I donn't necessarily like explaining myself and why i am, but i'm not afraid to say what i think is questionable and pushes me to think otherwise. So i just felt like typing a blog about this.
O.k the thing is. Us as humans ofcourse our potential at knowledge is forever growing and our sense of power is through the roof since we dominate the very fate of everything basically. The questions that often bother us is "What's beyond us?", "Why are we here", "What will happen after death?" I believe that these questions that were unanswered before these religions were created, were often also being asked by ppl like us. I believe that they were created to give us the sense of comfort and to civilise the masses. A scenario that goes through my head is an old ancient kingdom that had a king that wanted his ppl to be civilised and to feel that there was consequences to their actions that are from a higher spirit. The king also wanted to comfort them and try to answer the questions i had mentioned earlier. Whether if it were a king or not i believe that there was someone or some ppl that understood this uncomforting confusion and the incivilised nature. Thus a practice is created. Created for what is permissable and what should be punishable by a higher being/s. Created for what will happen after death, and how to live life.
The thing is noone REALLY knows. The books we have now, representing the way of living life today, have aged and been passed down through many philosophers. Leaving plenty of room for any alteration of their desire. Another thing to think about it is that these books were first written in a language that had to be translated to ours. Who knows what could have been lost through translation?
But it all comes down to your faith. If u practice a religion, continue to faithfully believe in what u truly feel connected to. Who knows if one day my beliefs shall change. Maybe all of these thoughts i just put down shall be ignored...