Let's take a moment and consider the origin of what is called religion. Despite humanity's differences we all found our origins in the same place, in some cave or tent 10,000 years ago. We were just one family then. Our grandfather was the patriarch of the tribe. Our father was the heroic leader: first in hunting, first in war. We had cousins and relatives not a few. At night we would tell stories. Usually the glorified histories of our ancestors. "Consider," grandfather would say, "the story of the tribe." We would all listen intently for what we knew would come next. Grandfather would lay open the genealogy of our parents. The battle of the gods. how the earth came to be. Adam, first of all men and Eve his wife. Noah and the flood. The formation of the tribe and the genealogy of the fathers. They would make us memorize on our fingers the names of our progenitors: God, Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah,...
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