Religion has been a strong force in humanity since the first cavemen. Man has always and will always look at the world and ask why. Why does lightning happen, or crops fail? Nobody knew and so religion was born. If humanity did not cause it then something did so we created the gods or the gods created us. IT all depends on your point of view.
Religion has many benefits and many flaws. One benefit of religion over atheism is it can act as a unifying force. Through out most of history when people have lost everything but their lives they have had fate in something. The early Jews where conquered and enslaved. Yet they had such faith in Yahweh they survived it as a culture and people.
Later when the early Christians where hunted
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