Re: Religion should have been a unifying factor
Not at all. You said "If in the beginning there was no God and no religion, then how and why and where did all of this come from?" I say man doesn't need to be predisposed with religion in him - he is already predisposed to to think, solve problems, get answers and otherwise be comfortable. It is only natural that he would come up religion to solve some of these issues, particularly the spiritual ones like "what is the meaning of life", "how did we get here", "where do we go from here".
Thank you for the suggestion to study psychology, which I have. You just made an excellent example of man trying to solve problems that fall outside of our standard sensory perception. Something that you have implied is unique to our belief in religion.
IF we were predisposed to religion, why were all the primitive religions non-monotheistic? Seems bizarre God would have us believe in the Sun God thousands of years before monotheism was practiced.