@joamur_gosof wrote:

Oh I agree with cd as its founding motive ...not its evolve though.


It's not until a cult or group of superstitions become offically recognised that a religion is born.  Certainly all the major religions of the modern World only continue to exist because leaders in the past found religion to be useful in holding onto and increasing their power.

 

'Religions' that didn't have that support, such as paganism, are no longer considered by most as viable nor even as a religion.