Religion is no less a product of evolution than any other social construct in human society.
The first glimpse of God, of religion, was when some primitive form of ourselves began to think in abstract ways. This was essential because God, the nature of the human spirit, the nature and spiritual authority of the likes of Jesus and many other Teachers is pure abstraction. So when that dear troglodyte began to paint animal forms to perhaps gain some ascendancy over the animal he was hunting this was the foundation of todays religions and just as valid.
When some culture began to worship the sun, a great storm, a monsoon, a volcano, this was just as valid as todays religions because it was a further step along the path. Then came a pantheon of gods via the Greeks and Vikings and others and this was another step forward. It was possibly the Egyptians, or perhaps the Sumerians who give us the first recording of these gods coalescing into one God.
The First Nation peoples of the Americas may have got there way ahead of them but we pretty much erased them before we were able to share beliefs and cultures, but they do seem to have had The Great Spirit, singular. All these stages represent the same God, they just indicate a time, a capacity and a need.
Today on HC we mostly debate or argue over religions that are anywhere from 4,000 to 1,600 years old which seems incredibly odd to me. It's as if this God is totally unaware of the extraordinary changes that has happened to the human landscape thus rendering these religions impotent, without solutions and all but useless in this age.
Occasionally we argue about the Baha'i Faith when Kam comes on board for a beating and I do thing his belief at least has solid solutions but as a religion it does not seem to being getting any traction.
So the old religion are valid, they had a time and a place relative to the condition of the people in their age. Today those old religions are only of use to make money, concentrate power or to argue about.
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