Why oh why is religion endemic in all the cultures of the world?

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I think it has to do with us finally gaining the capabilities of higher consciousness and not being able to answer how we gained this mysterious new capacity. you?
twinspick22: I'm speaking of distant ancestors genius. This has nothing to do with me, its an anthropological question. Apparently you cannot distinguish between egotism and simple curiousness.
 
Well at one time I think most of the world operated on a higher consciousness, practicing a solar-astrological, and most importantly a shamanic belief system... then this was turned into "religion" which is really just a trap to keep people down in the lower realms of consciousness so the masses can be easily managed by their religious-political misleaders... The ancients held some very important knowledge, that most people have lost. They knew how to break on through to the other side, it wasn't just a story to them, they would actually induce real mystical experiences.
 
Pretty much.

Humans evolved to be smart enough to pop existential questions but did not have enough tools to answer them. We then resorted to the fallacy of "events must be started by beings with intent" because that's what can easily be observed in daily lives. This eventually turned into sets of beliefs in immaterial agents (aka deities aka gods). These beliefs married with authorities' interests and gave birth to religions.
 
I think that your ego is so huge that it is having you belive that you are smarter than 99 percent of the world population. I will take it a step farther and say that even though you are a failure at life and everything you have ever done, your ego makes you think it is not your fault.

Whose fault is it that you are a failure then?

get your ego in check
 
I'd say people are concerned about the world coming to an untimely ending and are trying to relate this to a higher being and if they are going to heaven/hell. Religion is just faith in something more than our earthly life and where we'll end up in our afterlife. So people are panicking about how they've led their lives and what life really means.
 
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