That's really an odd question.  To postulate you'd be able to seperate
say, the Greek Pantheon from Greek Civilization.  When did religion
really become into being?

Today's common definition of Religion automatically makes the concept
stupid.  It basically breaks down into: the belief of things that
can't be proved or are untrue.  It must be about unprovable things,
elsewise, why would you have to believe, instead of know?  I think the
problem today is that we have ways of proving and disproving things,
but they have little to say about how we should behave.  And it's
really hard to decide to behave one way or another based on any reason
science gives us.

Back when, there was not a thing such as Religion (believe in things
that can't be proved).  There was just stuff people knew in order to
survive, some of which were true, some were untrue, but not worth
testing, just in case.  Gods were just an obvious explanation, it was
Occam's razor for the time.

When humans went beyond simple survival, Religion was born.  Even the
most scientific people deal with belief today, though they may not
include a God.  Take global warning... is it real and human caused?
God knows there are scientists out there to prove just that, even if
it is not so. Because, they believe certain things:  that nature
should progress with as little human impact as possible.  You can't
scientifically prove that something like that is true.  You may say
that it is better for human survival, but even that is not exactly
provable, and still requires the belief that our survival is a Good
thing.

I don't think you can disentangle belief from human kind, history or
future.
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