Where does religion come from?     who invented it?
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Wish I knew. They deserve a kick in the bollox.
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to. \nread this: http://www.toykeeper.net/philosophy/knowledge
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Sure, I think the answer to both questions is yes. Religion was created to conquer a fear of death and religion was created to control people. However, aside from religion, a man rose from the dead and this man is named Jesus. Something is remarkably different about this person and you can read about him in the Christian Bible. This one event shows that there is more to a religion than a mere belief or control. God has a plan for our lives and God made himself known throughout history.
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It is interesting that, with the exception of the Mormons (an off-shoot of the Christian religion), no major religion has been formed since the age of modern science. Think about it! All major religions were created before people knew that the Earth is round. There was one fellow in Texas that tried to start a new religion. His name was David Koresh. We know how that turned out.
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Religions for the most part were created during a time when most people still believed the earth to be flat and that is was the center of the Universe.  Generation after generation has been indoctrinated into believing the religion they were born into without ever really questioning it.  It's easier for them to ignore science than face the truth.
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The theory of evolution (assuming you are lumping this in with the physics of the creation of matter) has the same initiation problem as the Religious one.\n\nWhere did the first matter come from?\nWhere did God come from?\n\nBoth 'sides' will say there has simply been [insert your object here]\n\nPeace out
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People created god out of a need to answer unanswerable questions. We used to have dozens of gods (Rome and Greece, etc.) but simplified it down to one to help with all the memorization.
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There is no true religion, because all religions are founded on a set of beliefs that can not be proven to be facts. The basis of religion is lack of facts, which is why it religion's are hostile toward science, which is the system of discovering the truth behind things by finding the facts, through first seperating the opinions.\n\nI don't believe in any religion, because they rely on opinions, super heroes, and etc. I accept facts instead of fiction and use the logic of science to make opinions. Usually people of religion have a hard time making difficult decisions without help from uneducated and or bigotic priests, however men of scientific logic and reason can make decisions individually.
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As a definition, religion is a particular institutionalized or personal system of beliefs and practices relating to the divine.\n\nBuddhism is a religion because it contains the previous variables. The system is called Buddhism, the beliefs and practices are based on the teaching of the Buddha and that that a state of enlightenment can be attained by suppressing worldly desires, and the divine is Buddha.
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In fact, there are thousands of religions. The eight major ones in our world are Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shinto, and Taoism. Hinduism, Shinto, and Taoism developed over many, many centuries. Each of the others bases faith on the life or teachings of specific individuals: Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who became known as Gautama Buddha, for Buddhism; Jesus Christ for Christianity; Confucius for Confucianism; Muhammad for Islam; and Abraham and Moses for Judaism
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Hinduism is the head. No one knows who "invented" hinduism. From there Buddha invented buddism and jainism sort of evolved from that.
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Not only was it written thousands of years ago and changed many times, the first writings of the gospel were put down many years after Christ's death...which explains why they don't agree. More importantly, the religion of Christianity was created by Paul, who never met Jesus. He created it out of the popular practice of the time: sacrifice. Jesus is seen as the ultimate sacrifice offered to God, which frees everyone from sin. Basically a BIG version of sacrificing a goat to god for a good harvest. Jesus had nothing to do with the creating of the religion. As always, it's just a bunch of guys trying to get people to do what they want. Religion is simply the mystical version of politics.
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10000 BCE, when the first religion came about... a Pagan religion. :3\n\n- 16 yo Pagan
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Actually religion is much older than science. What the ancients could not explain otherwise was attributed to a creation of a higher power (read God). Scientists are slowly discovering the different facets of this higher power by applying science and technology
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Most religions center around a god or numerous gods, except for atheism, which is not really a religion. It is just a lack thereof. Therefore your question about evolution being a religion - no, not really. Evolution is more like a theory. People either accept it, or don't. But it's not their way of life. I hope you see what I mean.\n\nTo clarify - most religions are made up of religious texts/chants/hymns. Religion is a very strong belief in something that guides peoples lives to do righteous things.
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Hello Joseph,\n\nThe word religion is found in three books, 5 times in the King James Holy Bible: Acts 26:5; Galation 1:13-14; Pure religion James 1:26-27.\n\nThe dictionary meaning of religion is [re- again + ligare bind] to bind one again to the "law" or religion, there is no distinct difference in the Old Testament between these two terms.\n\nGod invented religion to bring a fallen man back toward himself. Every ceremonial act of religion in the O.T. is a direct revelation of the Messiah to come. Now today we know He arrived in the person of Jesus the Christ.\n\nJesus said that he came NOT to destroy the Moral law, but to fulfil the ceremonial law (Old Testament law and religion). SEE: Mat. 5:17\n\nJesus as Lord of the Sabbath died on the cross on your behalf so that you may be set free (in-rem)from the Law. The penalty of breaking the law is death. Christ bore this burden for you as it is appointed once for a man to die of flesh, but Christ took the second death for you.\n\nAfter Jesus was resurrected on the third day, he emmerged as the Head of the Church (Gk. ecclesia ek- out + kaleein to call) The church is calling you and me out of religion and darkness unto Jesus.\n\nNo where in the Holy Bible do I find a calling to become a Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Budist, Islam etc. There are over 500 separate and distict religions to 1 Gospel truth. Which religion is right? NONE, these are the tradition of men to deceive you into occult Easter eggs, bunnies, Lent; this stuff is unscriptural.\n\nAll religions today have an origin of being man-made. They have conventions every year to change doctrines and try to get their act together. So do the Republicans and Democrats in the USA; you can see the politics in religion too.\nReligion is fallible or able to fall or err, but my God is infallible, and he changes NOT. There are too many wars, and too many killed to count on account of religion and their crusades.\n\nDont beleive in religion, God is calling you out of religion and darkness nto Himself: Jesus the Christ. \n\nJoseph, in order to know God you must invite him to come unto your heart, he wont force himself on you. You must request him to come into to you. My God is a loving God and he awaits your request. \n\n rcc1000@sbcglobal.net
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The first evolved idea of religion was during the Sumerians time, when the cities of Ur & Uruk were founded, circa 2000BC, and was Nephilim worship. Basically a group of messengers came to Earth and bred homo sapiens as workers. After several thousand years, several Nephilim felt enslaving us was wrong, and started to impart their knowledge to us. There was a civil war among the Nephilim regarding the future of mankind. This led to the biblical flood of 4000BC, in which almost all human life was lost, though finally the benevolent Nephilim won and through a fe,ale Nephilim, the human race was created, leading to the view that we are all Gods children, and the opinion that we all contain a small essence of the Divine. They taught us the wisdom of how to grow crops, religion, philosophy etc. This info was largely lost with the rise of the Persians, Babylonians and led to the forgotten knowledge scenario.\nUruk has been found and its great zigarat (pyramid) remains unexcavated approx 150miles NW of Basra, Iraq, currently occupied by UK troops.