How Religion Works

Once upon a time in a faraway land a group of people assembled and decided that they would follow a code of social behavior so they could live close to one another. They wanted to understand what happened around them that they could not control. The earliest Neanderthals have been found buried with formed animistic trinkets and are thought to have believed in spirits...later evolving into the Holy Spirit. Testaments written by people in all faiths are typically described as being directed by a spirit that talks through them and is believed to be either G_d, or a messenger sent by G_d.Religion seems to have first evolved in an agrarian pattern with a matriarchal influence.The neolithic period brings us evidence of the beginnings of the first organized agriculture - the so called 'Agricultural Revolution'. Typically, farming cultures venerate female deities as symbols of fertility, and motherhood. Formerly male or neutral deities were usurped by female deities in popular cosmology, with female deities becoming the dominant forces in any polytheistic organizational schema.
Around about the same time, or shortly thereafter, pastoral societies also began to evolve their own primitive forms of organized religion. Pastoral societies ( shepherds, and hunter-gatherers) tend to worship male deities - the image of the provider and protector being most important to societies, as opposed to the image of an earth mother. These societies evolved either as a result of the surviving influence of the oldest forms of religion, or as a distinct part of the same process which created the matriarchal faiths.Patriarchal faith was ushered in by the Hebrews.Every major religion has its roots where the first humans are said to have first appeared. I think it's time for a Global Belief System that reflects the ideology of all religions and helps us live together as a whole earth society that is interdependent.Right now in the simplest terms we believe our imaginary friend can beat up your imaginary friend.This isn't an original thought. Like most of my thoughts, and your thoughts, there is no new ideology on the planet.We have become a fearful,war-like,greedy,possessive global society.There is no room for mistakes because everybody believes they are the ones chosen for G_d to speak through.Our testaments must be re-written to reflect thousands of years of progress in thought,changes that have occurred due to technology, sociology,etc. Religion is again primitive because it really hasn't changed a whole lot since the dawn of man.The Ten Commandments are the cornerstone of all religions. The belief in one G_d is universal, with few exceptions, if you believe in G_d at all. It is not essential to believe in a G_d, but is essential we get along. We will all die if we do not figure out a way to write and follow a new global belief system.I can envision a system of simple threads that run through all religions that form the Great Global Belief System.The first must be stop killing each other! Our planet will self-destruct in time anyway.It will not matter in the end whether you believe purple is the prettiest color, or G_d is a cuttlefish.Governments and corporate America believe money is G_d.People are enslaved when they are in debt.We have enough resources globally for all of us to survive, go to bed without hunger,have a car, a home, and provide for our future until our planet dies.