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Origin of Religions

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Source of relious sentiments in mother-child relation and education to adulthood
Babies' first universe is personal: caring adults. Education and learning should replace that first universe, which is personal and responsive to your signalling of needs, by insight in the functioning (later even "dead" mechanics, chemistry) of nature. Degree of such insight makes adults survival capacities: tracing water, nourishing vegetation, hunting animals, digging and sowing.

The evolution of human consciousness is analoguous to the development of individual mental growth from baby to old and wise (depersonalisation of the idea of the universe). In every culture, there are huge differences in mental growth among humans of older age, that is, the degree to which that depersonalisation matures.

Stone age religion
First stages of civilisation: adulthood (ability to participate in hunting, gathering, later the first agriculture, and fighting) is reached after mother's education tasks. First universe is mother. Hence, the idea if God is that of a Mother (a nourishing, caring source of life).

The Bronze Age religion gender swap
In the later bronze and early iron age, education prolongs. Adulthood is reached at a (slightly) later age (simply because it takes youngsters longer to learn to compete with the now more crafty adults on an equal footing). Survival (against other tribes) requires that fathers take a role in (later) education (more complicated craftsmanship, warfare techniques and agriculture). Father's capacity to provide for your needs now becomes more prominent in the consciousness of maturing adolescents. He loves you, but his wrath should be avoided. Hence, God becomes a Father, as in judaism, christianity and islam.
Abrahamist semitic religions (judaism, christianity, islam) are based on a father God, who drove men from paradise, whose wrath is to be feared and avoided. Paradise is Mesopotamia. The conglomerate of non-semitic tribes later merging in the Persian empire are the ones who drove the semites (people of Abraham) out ( Timeline). They developed into the Jewish and Arabian tribes seeking some place in the desert to survive. The trauma of being chased from Mesopotamia results in a   compulsive need to relive the suffering of their male God by regimes of unpleasancies. The tactic of semitic religious leaders is to create sense of guilt and fear. This breeds fanaticism necessary to fight competing tribes out of desired oasis. Not suitable to run modern states. If used for that purpose, inherently unstable.

Modern Europe: retreat of male single God