Which was the first religion ever?

Hi Alemo,
If you believe in the Bible than it is clear that the first relegion was Judaism. 
Best regards,

The simple answer is that all religions are a system of superstitious beliefs that attempt to explain things that the followers of that system of beliefs do not understand.

One of the simple, and among the first religions, came from the fact that the Sun rises every morning and sets every night.  It seemed logical from a human point of view that the Sun must revolve around the earth, or at least that it must, for some reason cross the sky every day.  It was also clear that when the sun shone brightly, it was warmer than when the sun did not shine, and similarly (with longer observation and consideration) that plants grew better when they received light from the sun (as opposed to being in deep shade).  The conclusion from this was that the Sun was the "giver of warmth and life", and therefore must be some kindly thing that, for reasons clear only to the Sun itself chose to show favor to the earth and its people. The people of ancient times had no explanation for what the sun was, and certainly no way of knowing why the sun appeared in the sky every day, so they gave the Sun a human-like personality with human-like motivations, but the obviously "super-human" ability to cross the sky in a single day.  From that, the people concluded (with the encouragement of the first priests) that this unexplainable "thing" was a "god", deserving of worship, praise, and sacrifice (to please and appease it, as if the sun could feel gratitude or anger, as humans would).

Many, if not most, of the early religions were based on worship of the Sun.  The "details" of what the sun-god "wanted" or required from worshipful believers were whatever the priests of the religion dreamed up, most of which was to guarantee that the priests were fed, clothed, housed and held power over the people.  Of course, someone who "speaks to God" was held in a position of honor and power, and so the systems of religions have existed to this day. 

Almost all religions try to do "good works", things that benefit the people in general and poor or otherwise less fortunate persons.  Most wars, however, are fought for land and power, or for differences in religion, because most religions also believe that they are the one and only TRUE method of "pleasing God".  Similarly, most religions have only partial tolerance for the beliefs and practices of other religions, because, after all, from their point of view, other religions are 1) wrong, or 2) evil because they turn away from the true path to God, or 3) silly superstitions of those who have not yet heard the "good news" about the "true God" (their own particular set of religious beliefs and practices).

Modern humanists (and people who have given this topic a LOT of THOUGHT) tend to think of "god" more in a sense of the amazing fact that the universe exists at all, and that all of the complicated science we have discovered so far is only a partial explanation of how the universe works.  This is actually very close to the original answer that Moses (one of the leaders of the early followers of the Hebrew religion called Judaism) brought back from Mount Sinai, where he claimed to have "heard" the "voice" of "God" say, "I am 'I am'" which is to say that "god is everything" (and therefore the rules of language say that if you ARE everything; "everything" is you, and thus only the first person pronoun "I" applies.  Which also means that to say more than "I exist" is a less than complete description of what God "IS".)  That is a rather sophisticated idea that takes some thinking to understand.  It appears to me that understanding this concept has been the "discovery" that most leaders around whom religions have formed were trying to communicate and that inspired the followers who understood it.  Unfortunately, few of the followers ever came close to explaining this concept to anyone else, and the "priests" ended up simplifying and corrupting this message into something that the common people COULD understand,the "god is a very, very old man with a white beard, sitting on a throne in a place you only get to go to after you die" or some similar kind of complete distortion of what Jesus or Buddha or Mohamed or Confucius were trying to get across when they understood the "I am" concept of the whole-ness and "one-ness" of the universe and how it operates according to the "rules" that we now call "scientific principles" even though even today we understand only a very few of them and how they work.

Respectfully,

Love and warm wishes,

Stafford "Doc" Williamson

the first religion was Dinosaurism......it was invented very quickly 65 million years ago by the more intelligent dinosaurs who looked up at the sky in horror as a giant rock was about to end life as they knew it.