Origin of Religion

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Everything started from fear:

People from the beginning of time have always been dominated by fear. Fear of natural phenomena that could not be explained nor controlled, and that adversely affected their everyday lives.

Out of fear came super-beings:

Human in early times guessed, and gradually "believed", that there were supernatural forces at play and there were super-beings behind these phenomena. They further guessed, and gradually "believed", that they could connect with and bribe these super-beings into helping them by worshiping and offering gifts. These concepts became a "beliefs" by human in earlier civilizations.

Religion is result of systemization of beliefs in super-beings:

The methods of worshiping and offering, ceremonial procedures and mythical tales related to these super-beings accumulated with time and became more and more complicated and confusing.

Complicated because they were products came from many different groups of people from different origins based on different reasons. Confusing because even the people who invented these concepts did not themselves totally understand the meaning of what they were doing. However, humans are an animal with a brain for systems. They organized and grouped all their beliefs into manageable systems; from there we have religions.

The fact that today we have so many different religions is because they all came from different groups of people with different cultural and social standards.

Religious organizations are just "specialists" about religions:

Almost parallel with the forming of religions, a small number of individuals became "specialists" in the worshiping ceremonies, offering gifts and telling mythical tales related to their religion. These people gathered together and systemized their activities, structures and rules for their groups. From there we have religious organizations.

Doctrines are products of both religion and religious organizations. Doctrines are collections of "truths", promises and rules that people believe coming from super-beings. Doctrines are in fact nothing more than collections of myths (which are man-made products) inherited and modified from generations to generations depending on personal views and knowledge of these "specialists".

Religion is a man-made product:

We can clearly see that religion is a man-made product: It is evident that these "specialists" have been imprinting their own personal and current social values on the doctrines, philosophies and teaching of their religion.

For example, human's knowledge about the universe once was so limited that they thought the earth was flat. This “fact” was reflected in the Bible. If the Bible was in fact a product of revelation from God then even though it was a few thousand years ago shouldn’t God still ought to know that the earth is round and rotating around the sun!?

For example, in the first book of the Old Testament there is a teaching that "any boy who is not circumcised will be abandoned by the parents and society". This teaching clearly reflects an old Jewish custom which does not have the same value in today society.

For example, until now the Vatican still has the final say in terms of who would, or would not, become a "saint". Roughly speaking, "saint" is a formal rank of a super-being which human worship and an “official” in the kingdom of God. Yet the Vatican, an organization owned and run by a group of "normal" people like us, has the power to make decision on this matter. This is a very clear example showing that a small group of humans could themselves "make up" super-beings, and myths. From there, the believers sustain and immortalize these super-beings and myths on their own self-deluding spiritual pedestals.

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