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[quote=Anonymous]I was raised Muslim (practicing, but not super conservative) I was in college, taking a gen-ed Religion 100 course, taught by a practicing Methodist minister. He was such a phenomenal teacher, that he was able to step outside his faith (or maybe use it?) to teach, objectively, why humans created religion. His premise was that humans have this desire to put order on chaos. We need to know. We need structure. We need patterns we can try to predict. Chaos for humans, is dangerous, and so we created religion to order the world.

From ancestor offering, to cave drawings, to contemporary religions - we are all constantly trying to order the chaos. Religion serves a purpose, but it's because humans created it for purposes.

It just clicked in my brain, like a veil was lifted, and I realized that ALL religion was manmade.  I get why they created it, but it's so evidently a completely human creation. That was 22 years ago, and the idea that any creator god could evidently exist then, is just absurd to me today, as then. We created it all. Some of it for good, some of it for bad, but much of it to just make it through the day/week/month/year/etc. 
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