Religion..a system of incorporating fear

Religions exist due to scarcity; of information regarding why natural phenomenon took place.

Religion is a system that was created to explain the un-describable (if that is a word). Floods, thunder, solar eclipse, earthquakes, deaths.

Earliest known evidence of human religion is from homo-sapiens neanderthalensis around hundred thousand years ago. Since then, religion continues to be a significant and influential aspect of human lives.We have faced numerous issues, challenges and problems from every possible background, location and social class (which is also a stratification invented by by religion on the basis of type of work, color, and physical variables of humans). People have faced issues of health, safety and mortality. Religion was the universal tool for explaining things that could not be understood through the context of the known physical world.

It also defines a manifestation of the human mind, of human-like entity that has greater power to control natural occurrences: god. An upset god, created flood and earthquake, famine and plague to punish those who carried out undesirable acts. Acts which were not "desirable" by the few who were corrupt. These people started a value system for the benefit of their then unorganized corporations by giving directions to control the human actions, thus purchasing power to govern the human society in lieu of the guidance and directions to be in the "good books" of god.

Thus, religion is a notion of conduct of human behavior as is favorable for those who propagate it.

Consider this, all men and women are born from the womb, naked, in need of food, shelter, protection. Alike. Religion creates an identity for them by inculcating the value system that has been traditionally inscribed into our minds and hearts so deeply that it has become perpetual and ubiquitous. Religion is a cause for social stratification. The elite, the poor, the masters, the servers, the leaders, the followers.

Religion does not tell us to be unified as we are. Born with the same bio-structural systems composed of the same atoms that started the universe. It does not have an agenda to consider us as one or even equal. It, instead segregates people into Hindus, Christians, Jews, Muslims etc.Each of these is further subdivided into sub religions with sub cultures and numerous leaders with their modifications of the value system to have their followers behave in a to profit them.

A religion divided is no religion at all.

The funny thing is the common link - god, as the most powerful someone. This clarifies that the minds of those who breed religion and keep the followers under control function in a similar fashion. Keep people under a constant fear of god and derive power to run the society.