[David]

I think that at the time we're in, we don't need religion, but others need it to be happy, so they can have it.

Some people will tell you that the only reason religion is around is because some tribal leader in the stone age needed a reason to claim that he's the right one for the throne.

He also needed a way to tell his subjects how to act, so he made rules, and punishments for these rules.

Tribal leaders would tell their people that they will be punished for not following the orders of an "all mighty God." The leader would tell them that a God would punish them, because the towns people would simply rise up against the leader. The leader simply needed a fail safe.

This idea of a god would scare people, so the towns people would spread the word of an all mighty god and a chain reaction started. people started to worship this "god" or "gods" because they didn't know better.

Then churches started. People who wanted to help spread the word would have gatherings, thinking that God would help them through life. The churches got bigger as well as the King's power

So now There is religion. Aswell as government. Both are based on the same pricipals, but are still somewhat separated.

Later on, after both church and state are powerfull, they start to become tangled up... with a government that could kill you for doing something bad, there wasn't much of a reason for religion. The church saw this, and would make more reasons for people to come to church.

You may think, why would they want people to come to church if they didn't need it, because the people running the church thought that is was their duty to spread the word of God.

The church and state are now tangled up because the church gives the king lots of money to get his people to come to church, also the king probably goes to church aswell.

Now that the church is dependant on the king for followers, and the king is dependant on the church for money. There are many different types religion all over the world.

Slowly the King is less dependant on the church and the church needs the king even less. This is because of merchantilism.

However, religion is so wide spread and everyone grows up knowing that there is a god and that's the way it is.

So, now everyone in a modern area of the globe lives their lives acording to the rules set by religion.

And then some revolutions happen and the government is changed completely. Even though everyone still lives their life the same way, they just have a different leader.

And here we are in America, with a "separate church and state" even though every major law is based on greko-roman religion. But the only reason chuch is separate from state is because there are too many types of religion. People got soo caught up in the unimportant details to their religion to see that all realigion is basically the same.

So we live in a country that is governed by religion, but Church and sate are separate.



That was like a mix between ranting and practicing for an essay in my history class. Sorry for any gramatical mistakes, or spelling.