bunnyfubbles
Lifer
You do realize that Christianity isn't the only religion, right? And that the Christian/Jewish/Islamic God/Allah is not the only deity that has been or is being worshiped?
Evidence for religion dates back 50-300 thousand years ago, well before any human civilizations, and long enough to predate what we would consider modern Homo sapiens, even evidence suggesting the likelihood that Homo heidelbergensis had a primitive religion, and you're suggesting it was invented to control people through fear as political tool... While many religions can help ease fears, particularly of death, its creation was most certainly out of positive/selfless intentions.
Your example through a movie is absurd. While funny, that movie is complete fiction. While someone at sometime more than likely made up a religion just like that (Scientology for instance), that's certainly not how it happened for all religion, and certainly long before modern or even classical science and math existed to help humans understand the world around them, all of which existed in that movie as it was a modern setting, a time and place just like ours but without lying.
