Article on early religion

• It is thought that the first organized religions probably began in the fertile crescent area, which is Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, etc. during the Neolithic period where agriculture was invented and the human population became huge.
• It is believed that they probably formed to make these farming societies get along with each other because they would always be fighting with each other.
• However, there are ruins of an ancient civilization in Turkey which is ten thousand years old and there is archeological evidence that they must have had a religion. 
• Huge pillars and drawings of various things, including animals, were found that suggested a common religion, although this society was so old that agriculture wasn't even invented yet.
• This suggests that religious rituals probably began even before we had complex societies and instead might have began in small villages in primitive societies that were still foraging for food.
• Schmidt's view is that human beings began to do this when they stopped seeing themselves as a part of nature but as the masters of nature.

 1. If religion has been there since the beginning of time, then what does this say about the religions that we have today?
2. What were these religions like?

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