[quote=UltraWill]Not my personal belief, but in ancient times, it was just you and a VAST world of darkness (as in the undiscovered, not evil). The concept of an all knowing God was to them, a logical way of illuminating that darkness. That's why a lot of the time, God is reffered to as light, or the sun. [/quote]

That would be only in many agricultural societies, most horticultural or foraging tend to be animalistic and that's where I believe religion comes from- from the human impulse to believe that everything has an intension, from rustling in the bushes to rocks, trees, rivers, and everything have intension, giving rise to spirits and belief in spirit worship, those spirits growing to become deities in themselves. In the case of Judaism it then went from polytheism to henotheism to finally monotheism in the sixth century BCE. I believe Pascal Boyer writes some good books about the origin of religion.