The ground opened and the tree and two children fell into the giant rumbling hole.  It had happened before.   And sometimes the sky got very dark and 'fire sticks' came down and started fires.  "There must be a man up there that doesn't like us."  "We should give him something, and maybe he will not hurt us."    The old leader had a good idea.  The people slaugtered a poor sheep on an altar (now you know the origin of that!).  It must have worked, there were no bad things . . . for a while.  But, it happend some time later.  This time the old man had a better idea!  Everyone should give the old man in the sky some food every month.  And that they did. They placed it on the alter, day after day, and it was gone the next morning!   The old man had a good thing going . . . FOR HIM. 

   Fast forward, today we call the old man in the sky a 'god.'  And he still gets the sacrifices . . .  only to-day HE GETS MONEY   -   Lots of money.  And the old men (thousands of them) that can talk with him can afford million dollar mansions, luxury sports cars, take lavish vacations, jet planes.  They need the jet planes so they can tell the whole World about the sky-god.  Only nowadays, by giving a sacrifice of ten percent of your annual income you can go up in the sky and be with the sky-god forever.   Many now claim they visited the 'man in the sky!' 

  A pretty good deal.  More and more are doing that.  Bye bye altar.  The altar has been replaced by a huge stage,  in a huge stadium.

IT IS A MEMBERSHP THING NOW.  DO YOU REALLY THE MAN IN THE SKY GETS ANY OF IT . . . MONEY, THAT IS?

Do you really think God gets all that money you send the god-talkers?

the origin of Religions

. . . and gods!