Religion

 My view:

I feel religion didn't merely originated by some people making others fool in name of an abstract thing(god) and getting them do what they wanted. 

I feel some geniuses figured out few amazing facts of nature like 

they traced the pattern of climate, 

they traced the pattern when to plant crops 

and which animals to domesticate, which plants to eat and 

how some diseases could be prevented, 

how few beverages helped in gaining immunity, etc. 

And these geniuses where considered as different from rest of the people, and public started believing in them. 

They started believing whatever these people spoke of. 

Most of the mythological views we have somewhere they are held true in a scientific way. 

The science has it's deep roots in mythology which simply gets unnoticed because mythology don't provide perfect profs for what they say, so it is all considered abstract. 

Mythology knew many things,how they are done and how they affect people before science ever did, just they weren't able to prove it!