In most religions the material way, is not enough, for religion if u have too many stuff , there is no way you can reach peace or hapiness, for it, turning our attention to the spiritual side is everything. The material is limited to when it fails to appeal to the unlimited Divine. 

Exchange conscious energetic forces are the basis not only desired by the wider society, but, for those who seek transcendence through the pain and fear in order to reach a divine energy.

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Pain and Fear are very important to religion because it helps gettin closer to our spiritual side. In Buddism, Buddha was between pleasure and pain. He found out that both partas were a painful and shallow path. Even he had good times, they did not gave him internal peace. Then Buddha decided to follow the Middle Way and focus on the present moment, instead of extreme solutions abroad. Drew attention to its interior and carefully considered what was happening in his body and his mind. 

Judaism has similar perception, since you can avoid pain, don't you run away, instead you have to learn how to accept it and grow your spiritual side. They have all kinds of sacrifices such as the kosher, the sabbath among others also they have suffered a lot through their history, however that is not too bad because according to them, those scarifices are making them closer to God.