Comment by idiotsecant

They're all weird, it's just that the weirder parts get rounded off over time or turned into divine magic.

Religions are a bug in the human pattern-matching firmware, of course they're going to be weird. There is something distinctly LLM-like about them. It's like when you see a midjourney image that's evocative of a concept but not quite matching physical reality. Religion has a lot of the 'made by an AI' fingerprints in it. I suspect an AGI could do quite a good job at crafting one that would be very useful for keeping the human population docile.