WHY DO WE WORSHIP GOD IN THE FORM OF IDOLS..?
Most of the people in this world will believe only in materialistic forms of nature.
It would be a very tough fight to make people believe the god so that they could have self-belief in them [ refer WHY GOD..? post ] who argued that earth is round.
Human nature itself includes experiments and proofs for everything which he believes. Just imagine, if there is no idol or no specific place where we worship, do people really believe in gods..?
We can't even concentrate while worshipping, and now let's see the present scenario... we go to the temple, see the idol of the god, we concentrate on the particular idol, we can easily say the things which we wanted to do to our subconsciousness, come out happily, the same thing happens in the Islamic culture, people go to mosques, meditate in the form of namaaz, say things to their subconsciousness in the name of saying to god / asking the god for help, the same repeats in Christianity. This is all about how where we concentrate while saying and asking things to ourselves.
Culture, traditions etc... are nothing but the science which is given by our elders according to the place we live, whether we have, the language we speak etc...
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND GOD... GOD JUST HAVE ANOTHER NAME CALLED "SCIENCE".