What if religion had never existed?

[MineralMan]

29. Time is, apparently, hugely relative for some.

We have a pretty good idea when civilizations actually began. Maybe about 6-7000 years ago. Estimates vary somewhat, and typically don't include Asian civilizations. Prior to that time, we know almost nothing about what people thought or believed. We simply do not know.

100,000 years ago, humans were still living in small groups, with limited interaction and no economical structure. If they had religion, it would have been some sort of shamanistic, naturalistic religion. That was the case when we began studying basic cultures that survived outside of our civilized places.

Some of those religions involved deities, but not all of them. Many were pantheistic, with spirits inhabiting everything.

To say that humans have had organized religion for "hundreds of thousands of years" is simply ridiculous. To continue to claim that, in the face of actual information, is much, much worse than ridiculous.

Some people simply have no understanding of the history of mankind. None. They simply haven't bothered to try to learn anything about it, either, or they wouldn't say such patently false things.

'Tis a puzzlement...