Relgion's Origins

Judaism was an offshoot of the Egyptian religious beliefs. Moses was an Egyptian and when the Israelites rejected his attempts to explain his beliefs they sent him off for 40 years. When he returned, he demised a way to introduce those beliefs - he created concepts that taught his traditions without the complexities. He introduced the concept of one god and law to a lawless people. And he used alleged miracles and fear as a means to invoke beliefs. At some point down the line, there was an exclusion from the Egyptian teachings by way of the Tribe of Levi - an attempt to dominate god with specific exclusionary laws. There was also a misue of the law by a re-codification with political goals that had nothing to do with the original concepts. For the people who still understood the origins of the Jewish faith they devised a way to open the "covenant" to all people. And reintroduce the Egyptian ideas in another form. So Christianity is really just an new reincarnation of Egyptian paganism. All of these noble attempts to create moral understanding has lead to so much conflict it's unimaginable. And certainly unimaginable to the people whose earliest attempts were simply to establish morality and things like sacrifice in to a lawless people. So the precepts of Judaism and Christianity (and Mohamed) are in line with noble attempts to encompass all of humanity in to the understanding that there is one source which can permit us to overcome our conditions here and now and live in an eternal fashion upon death. It is by misuse, misunderstanding, and human inclinations that religions results in an opposite polar focus.