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The purpose of religion is to provide an explaination regarding who we are, what are we doing here and why do the French have a very unique accent.
In the beginning, there was no religion, but then someone asked, "What if a higher power exists?"
The most logical conclusion was that this higher power probably has an influence over past, current and future events.
This higher power is usually refered to as God.
The most interesting characteristic that religion has is that no one can prove whether the religion is true or false.
As a result, many arguments, wars and vicious killing had occured in order to prove that one's own religion is better than the other's.