A lot can be made of a much familiar scene: A deer receives an arrow (or say a bullet) to the heart. Within seconds, it dies. Looking at what remains, we do not call whatever is left under any other name. It is still a deer. But where did its life go? In all likelihood, that question arose from the minds of the first representative of humanity who showed the first signs of nascent intelligence and spirituality, the Neanderthal men. What this indicates, theoretically, is the dawn of religion. Thousands of years hence, we have the great religious systems: Christianity, Judaism, Islam. Inevitably, these religions share a common root in the Mesopotamian religious establishments, evolving into the complex belief systems that we now know. Irresistibly, too, they share a common fault: records hardly bear out most of their grandiose claims, from the miraculous to the mundane against the historical and archeological works, then or now. Also seen here is a history of man's invention, and reinvention of gods as necessary to fit the changing times, places, and cultures of respective believers.
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