All societies have the existence of religion in common. It is part of what makes us human. Religion is defined as the beliefs and patterns of behavior which humanity uses to resolve issues that cannot otherwise be solved using known technology. Religion includes not only the rituals which manipulate supernatural powers, but also the story of creation. If every religion has a story about how and why people came to be, then you could say that the function of religion is to answer the currently unanswerable questions of how and why we exist.
If what we, as humans, are seeking is an answer to how and why we exist, and if many of us credit the Big Bang as the precursor to life as we know it, then what effect does existence prior to the Big Bang have, not only on how and why we came into being, but also on what we have become?
-LEH
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