Those tribal people came up with the idea of one god. Everywhere else had many.

Where did it come from? , who cares! Where is it going is much more interesting. Will it die out in the face of science and human knowledge?

Aliens brought religion as a way to control humans...lol

whhoh thank frank that I'm not in that circle!

Religion evolved from early mans effort to understand his surroundings.

I have always enjoyed this quote from Voltaire: "Religion began when the first charlatan met the first fool."

Here's my tuppence worth:-
Religion builds upon itself, just as a rumour machine does. Person A surmises something esoteric, such as "That storm could have been dead people fighting." Person B then claims that every storm is caused by their ancestor's spirits. Person C then dreams up some ethereal land, with great Leaders. Person D gives them an all powerful status. Over time a word for these all powerful beings is coined. This is typical human behaviour, and can arise in multiple tribes, with the original concept perhaps coming from the early intelligent Apes of Africa that had learned to communicate by complex speech.
However, The SPREAD of religion comes with the expansion of civilisations. Hence the dominant religions all originated in the places where great civilizations once flourished.

Religion comes from an attempt to provide an answer for something unexplained at that moment. And to ease fears from thunderstorms to death.

I think it comes from the butt. No brain would come up with this shit. ?

IMHO I think it comes from the hearts of evil controling men.

It comes from a need to explain things we don’t understand

I think that religion comes from two places; a desire to understand, colliding with a need to control. It's easy enough for humans to try and explain the world around them in ways that they can identify, but it never takes long for that innocent explaination to be used to keep one person from doing something another doesn't want them to do. The system grows from there.

Fear of the unknown, and the need to explain it.

Freud attributed it, in part, to totemism.

I think that it is human nature to try to find explanations for things we don’t understand. Without a scientific framework the supernatural becomes an explanation.

Our need for answers, our ability of imagination and our tendency to anthropomorphize everything.

I have heard that it was formed from fear of darkness. People would go out into the dark and animals would of course attack and carry them off to eat them. The tribal leaders started to have people do repeat things like make noise and commotion and to go into the night with several people developing rituals.

Mankind created god/gods and religion.

And I thought it was Wallmart.....

Silly me.

I would say religion comes from ancient peoples that didn't understand how things work! Hopeful people will get smarter understand science.

How do people arrive at religion?

1. The need to explain things that can't otherwise be explained by current levels of scientific knowledge.
2. The need for comfort in ther own mortality, and that of those close to them.
3. The need for hope, in hopeless situations. To feel in some degree of control when they have none.
4. The need to set a moral code, in a society not sufficiently evolved to figure out morality for itself.
5. The need for a sense of unity and community.

Now pondering whether the Great Flood only happened inside the red circle, too. That would have been a much easier party trick. God could have simply borrowed water from elsewhere on the planet.

It comes from the uncanny need of people to explain those things for which there is not an explanation.

Lol... geeze! I wonder what theyre going to find on mars?

For almost all of us, except maybe sociopaths and a few others, we have a need to connect to something bigger or more important than the illusion of our individuality. We are hardwired to be social creatures. For example our need to speak, develop language and impose a structure (grammar) on that language is 'instinctual' and is necessary for social interactions. Combine this with trying to understand the world around us before the development of the scientific method and we get religion and other faulty belief systems.

As I said, the depths of hell.