woodublieve12 wrote:
All that weird stuff hinges on the equally weird idea that there is such a thing as a spirit or soul, and that we are not simply an animal species. Once you take that first step you can make up "God" or "Gods" stories, and any extravagant religious delusion becomes believable to some.
Some of the world's earliest con-men had worked that out, and some of their successors are still using it to support their own deiusions, or to gain power over others...