Origin of Religion – I wonder !!

I often wonder why people came up with the institution of religion. Why was each religion invented and when was it first practiced.

Human mind is very complicated and I myself believe, that if you train your mind to believe in something, sometimes that belief can give you enormous strength, rather, it can bring out that part of you, which you thought never existed.

As per my family beliefs, I am a Hindu, but since I am a student of science, I just consider myself as a Human being and I can associate to only one religion which believes in the welfare of all living beings. I would say that, “I am a Humanitarian”. That’s my religion and I want to follow it with all my heart and soul!

Since I have a knack of asking “WHY”, “HOW”, “WHEN”, I often wonder, what happened to us – humans , Why did we separate and formed these sects ?

Studies show that millions of years ago all land was one, scientists call it “pangea”.

Above is the rough pic of pangea as thought to have existed millions of years ago…

This “one land”, makes me think, that if all of our ancestors belong to this single land, then how did we all came up with different religions and why ? I would like to believe that we are all pangeans, not Indians, not Pakistani’s etc.

And initially though the land pangea was a single piece of land, it did separate eventually, due to the moving magma in earth crust and the ocean waves. And that’s how we got separate land.  So, we were living in far off lands in small civilizations, and we all came up with different ways of living, with different ways of explaining things like fire, thunder, lightening (and in hindu/Aryan mythology there is a god named after each of those phenomenon, who supposedly controls these things), but that still does not explain the need to give a name to each practice/belief, and follow it like a principle of life. Though land did separate humans, I do not think that it gave us the right to form rules and regulations and impose on our people.

Today, distances are no longer separating humans from one another and each country has at least one member from most of the other countries. I believe that we have come closer to each other through various means of communication. The earth is becoming smaller again…

So we should all start to accept each other’s beliefs or come up with a common belief which does not require practising any ritual, does not ask you to follow rules and regulations but which gives you freedom of expression, just asks you to be what you are ,think about the good of others and asks you to bless everyone…