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Co-DeeK slash Special Offer. The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

Volume 3, The Classical World. Episode 64A, A, The Evolution of Religion. Oh, The history of religion is the History of Human Kind's desire to make sense of its own existence.

It is the History of Human Kind's quest to understand spirituality or the existence of influences that cannot be seen with the eye or what we may call the supernatural.

For as long as there has been human consciousness,

it seems that there has always been religion.

So we can argue that while we are human, we have religion.

It is a part of what makes us human. Prehistoric graves contain artifacts that would have practical value in everyday life, but no practical value in a dead person's grave. so the concept of an afterlife surely existed in the minds of those people.

The act of burying the human body itself seems quite bizarre.

Surely there is no practical value in wasting time burying bodies

when bodies can be just left to decay in the open to become carrying for other animals,

unless there was a spiritual reason.

Maybe early humans did not believe that death was final or believed that human mind and

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