I have completed my analysis of what religion is and from whence it arises. It is the intellectual extrapolation of a ‘higher-power’ by our in-built dominance-hierarchy analytics. At some point our ancestors noticed that their leaders lacked omnipotence—they can’t control the weather, for example—which implies that someone or something else does.
The vacuum at the top of the dominance hierarchy is ‘God’, and the study of this space is either religion or philosophy depending on one’s starting point.
We’re all in this together, so, I suppose I should apologize in advance to those of you who thought religion was more than just a way of thinking about the world, and thanking it.