Why was religion made?

Answer 1

Religion was made so humans could have something to focus on like God, and if a certain human does that they will get their reward.

Another Thought

I believe it started when humankind first became self aware. They looked around, and being thinking creatures, started to wonder how things (including themselves) got there.

Questions like: "Where does the sun go at night?" "Why does the weather change?" "Why is the land not all flat?" "Why is the ocean salty?" and a million more similar thoughts.

The world is a big scary place when you are a primitive. Animals are hard to catch, nobody had "invented" farming, or grocery stores or even nice safe warm houses.

It was important for humankind to believe there was a "guiding hand" in the creation of the world and that "someone up there was looking after them."

Thus, some higher power had to be "running things" and the first of the spiritual paths stumbled into the light of day.

As time went along, the "spiritual path" became a little more of a "spiritual road." More and more people started following it. We started formalizing the creation stories, and the teaching stories, and the words used to ask for things (prayer).

With humankind, being territorial and acquisitive by nature, conflict came about. When two groups crossed paths in a desirable area, then, god went to war.

It is so much easier to kill others, take their property, and enslave their children if you believed "God is on our side."

The fact that the other group believed the same, was irrelevant.

It has always been my belief that humankind is unable or unwilling to take responsibility for their own actions. So they allowed their gods to be more human (venal, gluttonous, petty, grasping, duplicitous, lascivious, and amoral) in order that they could excuse their own excess and petition the gods with prayers to forgive their behavior.

They even created an evil entity "the devil" who's sole purpose was to tempt humankind into the commission of inappropriate acts. Thus came about the cry, "The devil made me do it!"

In the evolution of spirituality, it came about that most people realized they would rather turn to an "expert" in the field, rather than try to figure it all out themselves and the "priesthood" came into being.

From that point on, humankind became more and more removed/insulated from their gods, eventually coming to the conclusion (often fostered by the aforementioned priesthood) that it was necessary and desirable to have someone, "properly trained" to intercede with the gods on behalf of the general population.

It was also necessary for that priesthood to continue its own existence, so there had to be a "reason" why the general populace would go to the priesthood for help.

Thus came about an exclusionary "heaven" or "final reward" that could only be attained by living a specifically prescribed life and making the appropriate offering, through the offices of the priesthood.

And what good is a "carrot" without a "stick"? Enter "hell", the ultimate and eternal punishment for those who will not follow the path.

Of course, "the intercession" by the right offerings, and supplications made through the priesthood, could get you out of that particular difficulty.

The formalization of that intercession, it's manner and words, the penance one would pay, and the rewards of the hereafter where the beginnings of Religion.

As more time went by, within the various Religions many prophets arose, charismatic men of vision and conviction who tried variously to "teach a different way."

Splinter groups peeled off of the "main" groups. These sub-sections became separate paths, eventually evolving into other Religions.

Some of these new Religions had "legs" and lasted generations, some of them, even the long lived ones, eventually faded into the obscurity of the past.

In short, humankind needed but failed, to keep a close enough eye on how Religion evolved. There are many today who are suffering a "crisis of faith" for just that reason.

The formalized Religions of today are becoming ever more remote from the needs of the people who follow them, and more and more souls go begging for lack of guidance.

This does not, however, mean that humankind does not still need its Religions. We have not yet come to a point in our own evolution, that we can or do act in a manner that would raise us above the need for God (uppercase, lower case, singular, plural, male, female or unknown).

When there is no more war, no more poverty, no more hatred, no more senseless acts of cruelty or violence.

When we all come to the place in our paths where we freely and conscientiously take full responsibility for our own actions.

When we live lives that exemplify the teachings of some of the more memorable of those ancient prophets.

When we understand and accept that each and every one of us carries the spark of the divine within us, and can come to respect that spark in everyone else.

Then, and only then, will Religions fall by the wayside, and we will all travel our own personal spiritual paths in complete harmony with one another and all the creatures of the world.

Answer 2

Christianity was made because Jesus Christ wanted to make follewers out of himself so people that follewed him and his ways would be called something.Christianity is almost like Judaism.

Answer 3

For many Christians, it began 50 days after the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, on Pentecost Sunday, 31 A.D. (arguable) in Jerusalem.