One reason can relate all objects, events, and ideas {unity of explanation}|. Explanation can cover all history, from before space-time to after end. Unifying principles can integrate all knowledge categories. One story can answer all major questions and problems.
story
Explanations can be stories, in which humans play significant parts. History can include how human mind arose, what it is, and how it will change in the future. Stories can become better, as human history proceeds and humans gain more knowledge about universe and themselves. Countries, cultures, religions, philosophies, groups, and people have stories.
Limited knowledge and limited expression power cause stories to be part true and part false. Reasonable stories can be logically complete and consistent and not contradict known facts. Such stories can be the consensus of the worldwide community of educated people, from multiple countries, cultures, religions, philosophies, and groups. Good stories can foster international community of educated, humane, and objective people, by providing common knowledge, upon which they can improve.
people purpose
Why are there people? Why do gods need people? Why did gods make people?
People can be just accidents of history and not be necessary results of physical events.
People can be necessary, but their attributes are accidents of evolution and genetics.
people purpose: gods
Gods, using faculty like human will, can make people for reasons. Perhaps, gods needed people to fulfill purposes in universe. Perhaps, gods needed people for companionship. Perhaps, gods needed praise and respect. Perhaps, spirits of people affect spiritual world, or spiritual world needs them. Perhaps, people can freely choose, and so their actions constrain God's freedom and will.
In organized religions, God requires people to do God's work and God's purposes in the world, and God has plan for people.
In Christianity, God created people to provide fellowship for God and to love, obey, have faith in existence of, and serve God. They have life from God. People should be good, not evil.
truth
People can prove something false, by giving counterexample or showing contradiction. It is hard to prove something true, because counterexample or contradiction can only become apparent after obtaining more knowledge.
God was creator but then let everything move on its own {deus ex machina}|.
Religions have theories about death and universe end {eschatology}|.
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