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Originally Posted by 420
Earliest forms of religion were used by people trying to survive. They would do anything to ensure a better harvest as that meant their people would not starve to death. Not sure how it went from that to telling people how to behave on earth in order to live eternally in a better place.
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awe of nature started with hunter gatherers, not the 'harvest... in those days healers, priest, shaman were self selected .. wasn't until 'agriculture' that committees selected the priest and population control began to be administered