A possible source of religious beliefs.

dude, that's wierd. as in, interesting perspective. I generally think along the lines that religion was created as a control on society. In that, as we began to coelesce, the upper class (or whoever else was in power), wanted to keep power. Also, needed to control how society acted (prevent anarchy, chaos, etc). Hence morality. Hence god worship. What once may have been used merely to explain things (hey--some god is making the ground spit fire) were turned around and used for control. And we all see how effective a control it is--from the extremist islamists (Taliban, Al-Queda, Insurgency, Ahmedijan) to the extremist christians (Robertson, Faith, Hovind) so thoroughly believe in this stuff that they follow it lock-step style. Quite easy to control them, really. and they tell us that we're indoctrinated at can't see the truth

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