How come the notion of A God/Gods and the spread of religion is so engulfed amongst humanity more than anything else can ever subsist?

Religion as you and i know it, is about control.
Control of the masses by the few !
You think about it.
Way back in the dawn of time, people worshipped the sun or the rain etc. To help grow crops, heal the sick, look after the livestock etc.
Then somebody somewhere came up with all these 'little people' that we were supposed to listen to.
Prophets; Priests; Shaman and so on.
Supposedly quoting the very words spoken by a single deity, once again. To the few.
How is it when god speaks to folk it's always one at a time ? Never at a football stadium packed to the rafters on game day !!!
And over time certain groups have gotten together to forcefully impress on the rest of us that this is the word of God and if you defy it we reserve the right to ex-communicate you; banish you; murder you ! Because it's the will of our God !
It used to really annoy the shit out of me watching the parades on the news in Northern Ireland.
Supposed Protestants and Catholics creating physical violence just because they didn't like the others choice in faith !
Some of them murdered each other in cold blood ! Setting bombs in cars; police stations; PUBS for goodness sake !!!
And they've ALL done it ! No exceptions !
I wonder if the Native Americans have it any better ?

This belief will have multiple origination sites for the very reason that speculation on magic will follow guidelines with limited permutations:

1) The supposition we have a spirit
2) The supposition some spirits are stronger
3) The suppositions one spirit is strong enough to create everything and wants to supply us with eternal joy

Magical explanations are the easiest to conceive- and quite popular in the absence of rational thoughts offering roughly the same things. And so they will proliferate in distant lands without the need of social interaction. We mustn't become as foolish as to believe this commonality suggests truth in the notion of God.

Perhaps it is a demonstration of how we are not all that dissimilar. When different cultures face similar problems, they come up with similar solutions.

there's a lot of truth to it...

Religion is more than just an explanation as to why we are here. As humans, we have a need to worship someone or something. As living creatures we are constantly changing, but how are we changing? We are changing to become more like whatever it is we perceive to be ultimate, that is we are becoming more like the thing that we are worshiping. The spread of religion then is not because everybody needed an explanation as to why we are here, instead it is because religion fulfilled everyone's need to worship. Does that make sense?

I'm not so sure about religion but definitely God/Gods...

😟It had more time to do so!!!!