The power, creation, influence, and history of religion

In my quest to understand the upbringing I had with Christianity and my passion for my DNA Heritage into Norse and Nordic people, I have stumbled across the origin of Christianity and how it has shaped the course of humans throughout the last three thousand years. it is Christianity that was the downfall of the Vikings. But I feel like it was inevitable .

It seems that Christianity was once just a middle eastern religion. Had nothing to do with anything or in any way with Caucasians any way shape or form. So why did we as Europeans take this religion and make it our own ? why did we have Crusades battles, killing of innocent people, sweeping across Nations, torturing and imprisoning entire Generations all in the name of the religion that we seem to have completely made up ?  

Constantine used the Roman sun-god, a pagan God, to create the day Sunday. Then how did Sunday become a Christian day of rest for what was a God that created everything in 7 days and rested on Sunday? Jesus's name was never originally that name at all, it was yahshua, and this man was not what Christians thought him to be. It's things like these facts, and thousands of other facts that changed throughout every other version of what it's called the Bible. So many different stories with so many different versions, yet people follow it religiously.

in Norse mythology there was the first man and woman. The man's name was Ask, and the woman's name was Elba. Odin created the first man and woman from a tree therefore starting out Humanity , and yet this was a known fact throughout history. This is a known origin of people. it baffles my mind that people throughout history knew very well that they were changing the story each and every time from what was once a created storyline. Christianity in essence has originated from pagan gods, the very gods and religions that it claims to abolish. unbelievable uncanny resemblance to the story in Genesis of Adam and Eve, yet the Norse mythology story would have come first. So when Christianity was sweeping across Europe they basically merged many different types of stories, Gods, Pagan religions, and ideas to create a religion from scratch.

 It was the pagan gods, the Norse mythology, and the Pagan Roman gods that caused more, death, and mass genocide throughout history. Why is it that people seem to have the desire to make everyone believe what they believe?  Why at one time, did people feel the need to take what they truly believed and felt was right and force other people to believe the same? The only possible answer in my mind at the moment could be that it was for power and influence. Possibly political, but most likely just wealth. After all that is the main motivation behind everything men do on this Earth. Ever since the beginning of man, since the time of cavemen when they had more things to offer in trade, that made them more wealthy and more influential.

What baffles me is it is starting to look more like race and religion play a hand in shaping the future, and not only a hand but the same hands on the same creature. In essence Europeans were what invaded the rest of the world, we are the invasive species. We had no business going into the Middle East and adopting a religion of theirs and changing it for ourselves. We had no business discovering America and exterminating  all of the natives there and making it our own. If we hadn't multiply that such a huge massive rate at one time, we wouldn't have moved out of Europe and into many other countries, taking our created religion with us.

In the Slavic creation myths, in the beginning, there was only darkness, inhabited by Rod, and an egg that contained Svarog. The egg cracked open, and Svarog climbed out; the dust from the shattering eggshell formed the sacred tree which rose to separate the heavens from the sea and the land. Svarog used gold powder from the underworld, representing fire, to create the world, full of life, as well as the sun and the moon. The debris from the bottom of the egg was gathered and shaped to make humans and animals.

According to scholars, Horus, the Egyptian god, was not born of a virgin. In one version of the myth, Horus was conceived when his mother, Isis, had intercourse with her husband, Osiris, just before Set killed Osiris. In another version, Horus was conceived when Isis had intercourse with Horus just after Set killed Osiris and scattered pieces of him, and Isis reconstructed him, creating a new penis for him. 

This man Jesus or Yehshua was most definitely a middle eastern man. Tan skin, black hair, minding his business, there was no reason for Europeans to take this person, if he existed, and turn him into essentially a worshipped deity. even to this day, the Catholic Church, Christian churches, Lutheran churches, and every single Church in the entire world uses religion as influence and Power. Why should anyone go to a designated building to worship who they think is God? Why can't they go anywhere else and do the same thing, even Outdoors? And in essence funding the designated building? Why give money to these buildings that don't need to be there? Secluding people , and forcing them to believe and do specific things in hopes of a higher calling?

I go back to Power, influence, and wealth. Something that has been a plague on humankind since the beginning of time. We crave it, we want it, it's all we desire. Not to mention wealth, influence, and power is associated with sexual attraction. Another cursed downfall of us humans but also the most beautiful natural and rewarding part of our existence.

Now I struggle with telling my children about religion, because religion is what helps people not become evil. They feel that there is a higher form of power watching over them judging them, and they must obey, follow the rules, and be good people so that they don't end up in a place called hell. So if religion didn't exist, would everything be in complete Mayhem and Chaos? Would mass murder and horrendous crimes be committed for thousands of years? I would like to think not, but in this current day and age it's much like a child believing in Santa Claus. Eventually they will figure out that it was all made up and a lie just to get them to behave a certain way, and in doing so causes bitterness when the truth is revealed. I don't Revel in the fact that I would lie to my kids to make them think and feel a certain thing in order to believe a certain way. I really would like to try to raise my kids with the thought that there is no higher form Watching Over Us judging us and punishing us. I would like them to be good people for the sake of being good people. But how has this never been introduced or tried before? Why is religion continually part of this society and it does not seem to ever stop nor will it ever cease to exist? 

I don't think I'll ever figure it out but it's definitely an observation of mine in this lifetime