What is the purpose of a belief system?

When discussing the purpose of religion, many people believe the purpose of religion is to answer questions.   Questions such as:

I would like to suggest there is a deeper desire underneath all these questions.

One of the tasks of a human being is to discover

Sometimes it can be challenging to be who they want to be within the context/limits of who they are and what they have to work with.

It can take one's whole life to answer these questions. That effort is large enough that humans look for a shortcut. Some structure they can believe will provide these answers. Some pre-made structure that helps them fit in and operate faster.

So the individual reaches out to a structure larger than themselves.   Something external that can impose structure they find difficult to maintain on their own.   That external structure is often a religious structure or a belief system.

Hence one purpose of religious belief system is to impose an external structure he individual utilizes to

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