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Originally Posted by Boozinbloozin
Just guessing but I think he is referring to us as humans. Kind of like the myth's of some man made diseases put out to control population. The same could be said for maintaining humanity?? Religion put into effect to instill some sort of ground rules for what to live by.
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It makes more sense to think of religion as a byproduct, a consequence of our natural needs and capabilities. I believe humans evolved, so then we got smarter and smarter because it's adaptable, it's a good strategy for survival and genetic perpetuation. With that smartness comes curiosity, a desire to learn and understand our environment and the world we live in. If we have a desire to understand, then we have a desire to be able to explain it. Religion is a quick route to explain and answer many of life's questions and more, for example what happens when we die.
Humans evolving culturally and so on without the emergence of religion .. now that would've been a mystery.