Religion follows a pattern. It starts with observation of animals and plants and rocks and trees and weather and dreams. Then personification leads to spirits of animals and plants and rocks and trees and weather. Dreams demonstrate that in the dream world, these things sometimes talk or otherwise behave like living things. Then there's the dead people in the dreams, and the human experience of feeling dead people like phantom limb after they're gone, still interpreting environmental signals as signs of their presence. It sure FEELS like your ancestors are watching over you, sometimes. And so you get animism, the religion of many indigenous and isolated people, who may not even have a word for 'religion', it just seems obvious to them that all things have a spirit that can be angered or placated, and that ancestor spirits watch over them. There's your 'original observation'.
All of your arguments seem to work out against you in the end, because either way, gods don't need to be real to be imagined, even if your hypothesis that 'original thought is impossible' were true.
All of your arguments seem to work out against you in the end, because either way, gods don't need to be real to be imagined, even if your hypothesis that 'original thought is impossible' were true.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.