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Religions typically start as being very abstract and open to interpretation. The stories are used as means for discussion. Only when religion becomes a supreme political force does the metaphorical distort into fact-statements. I would imagine that given a chance to start over we would have a spontaneous creation of thousands of religions (given the huge population of the world), that could actually be fruitful. It wouldn't take long for long-standing power-disparities to cause people to rally around their mythologies as means for inspiration and justification for war and we'd be back to where we started, though likely with more variety (rather than several religions with billions of followers). Eventually, it is likely that through war several religions would emerge. An interesting thing to consider is the role of mass media. How would new Gods emerge in the international hypermedia?
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