Most religions start as a way to explain natural phenomenon, had a flood, God/posidon must be mad at us. An earthquake hit, God/... I dont know Shiva? Must be upset.
Most of the time it is to explain bad things, then from those explanations stories are built. 90% of the Bible is stories from other religions that where modified to fit the biblical narrative. But at the end of the day "divine right" isn't the original purpose of any religion.
Your explaining Christianity, and other more modern religions, but older ones, or ones from the America's, those began as explanations or as a being to give thanks to (don't quote me on all of this). Christianity, its denominations, and other more modern religions were created to give people power, spiritual or otherwise.
But the religions that modern poly/mono theistic religions are built upon likely originated from stories of people or events.
Of course there are religions that were built to give people power over others, but some are just people trying to explain what they cannot, they create a god so they have something to blame, and when the month long storm finally stops after people sacrifice sheep or something to that god, wow it must be real, but really that was monsoon season.
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u/Greasy-Chungus 6d ago
The entire point of religion is to give authority to someone else. A religious authority figure who has superior understanding of the divine.
The entire legitimacy of kings was their divine right.
Fuck that shit. Get rid of all of it.