How did religon come to be did some people just make up stuff and believe in it?

Question

Did they just make stuff up and believe in it and then they told lots of people to use it

Answer 1

Pretty much dude....

Answer 2

All basic religions are formed trough folklore. They start as cults to many things that a primitive man considers crucial for his well-being: water, the Sun, earth, some wild animals and plants. At first, all these things are considered daemons, some kind of spiritual forces that are not defined in total. Also, in every possible nation, there was (and still exists) a very developed cult of ancestors. Together, all of these things form the early religions; especially wild animals (most widespread are wolves, hawks, cows and oxes, snakes, various birds) soon become teriomorphic gods. Then they go trough a process of transformation into anthropomorphic gods, but very often they keep some old, animal attributes. These are the basics for any religion development, with the exception of those religions that are in the form of teachings, like Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, but even those teachings have some common points with folk beliefs and folklore in general.

Answer 3

It was an early attempt at rationalizing the universe based on our complete absence of understanding it. Humans have some kind of innate need for superstitions and myths, so they swallowed it up and spread it.

Over time though, if you look through history, major religion quickly became a political tool and a means to control - an opiate for the masses as Karl Marx put it. As civilization grew religion actually declined. Most pagans and greeks stopped believing in their gods, but the Jews clung to their beliefs out of fear of divine wrath. Then christianity began to emerge and they forced conversion (quite literally) at sword point. Islam appeared some time after that, and the three major beliefs in conflict (but ironically believing in the same god) just went nuts fighting each other.

But the appeals to fear, the brainwashing, and especially the painful torture and death of nonbelievers were instrumental in carrying religion so far... However that it still lingers is an insult to academic intelligence. =P

Answer 4

The Church is apostolic because she is founded on the apostles, in three ways:

- she was and remains built on "the foundation of the Apostles,"362 the witnesses chosen and sent on mission by Christ himself;363

- with the help of the Spirit dwelling in her, the Church keeps and hands on the teaching,364 the "good deposit," the salutary words she has heard from the apostles;365

- she continues to be taught, sanctified, and guided by the apostles until Christ's return, through their successors in pastoral office: the college of bishops, "assisted by priests, in union with the successor of Peter, the Church's supreme pastor":366


You are the eternal Shepherd
who never leaves his flock untended.
Through the apostles
you watch over us and protect us always.
You made them shepherds of the flock
to share in the work of your Son. . .

Answer 5

There is some truth to that. The reference examines the matter in much more detail than I have time or space for here, and I recommend it.

Answer 6

People were mentally impressionable at the time. Now, we're not, because we have cars and nuclear bombs and airplanes. None of it the work of a god, it was all man-made (MAN made).

Answer 7

with the exception of true Christianity, all religions are false and are inspired by Satan to decieve the masses and to make it possible to Satan to "steal" souls from God.