Religion

I hold that it really has no point, other than to reflect the culture that founded it.

Religion is a human-created thing. It has no other origin. That is demonstrated by the large variety of religions that have existed and still exist. If religion were independent of human beings, there would be just one religion. Clearly, that is not the case. Religions, like the deities they imagine, are many and varied.

Look at Christianity. It exists in a bewildering number of forms. Thousands of distinct versions of it, but all with the same overall name. In many cases, followers of one version consider the others to be invalid. Wars have been fought over the varieties of Christianity. All the work of human beings. Any deity worth its salt would put paid to all that confusion. But, since deities are only imaginary entities, they have no power at all.