The Purpose Of Religion

[Really?]

There are clear anthropological reasons for the development of religion. Remember that most religions up until the common era were polytheistic and that the various deities were not just worshipped for their power, but because they were believed to drive the machinery of existence. Weather they drove the sun across the sky or judged the dead or caused the changing of the seasons. In the modern era religion became a moral foundation and the purpose of worship changed from causing normality to praising superior beings for not treating us like insects. These causes make sense. They do not make then true...