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well my take, although wrong to others, goes a little like this... Many current day religions had their roots when civilization had really taken hold on people, although there were before, but anyway... Many have very similar structures, and try to explain the same answers, and the such. many came about trying to explain the unexplainable- such as earth creation, creation, power, events, etc. Also, most, and probably very essential, was the approach to Good and bad, good, there was heaven, virgins, riches, whatever, and bad was generally the opposite. This, for the most part, created a control on people. Anyway, its quite surprising how similar, down to the real roots, many religions are. But anyway, what really strikes me as strange is how easily Christianity could split based on beliefs- out we get is Catholicism, Lutheran, Ptrotestant, Morman, Baptist, Methadist, and many others. Looking at it, most of these small splits happen when people determine what really should be follow, and what shouldn't be, or is unnecessary. This is where I find flaw: The idea that people can change the religion to suit their needs or beliefs, yea, that's where i begin to really find religion sketchy.
I also find it interesting is how many can use religion to gain power and wealth, but that's off topic.
Furthermore, the ''answers'' that have been provided to me in the past, really don't make sense, and don't seem to have any real backing, but thats ok...
also, being spiritual is one thing, but religious is another. my view, as mangled as description was, is just that religion is flawed, but a higher power is entirely possible, but I almost could care less.
