[WanderingKnight]

No, I believe that's a misconception right there, born from the fact that religion, in particular Christianity, is incredibly influential in our world.

You see, there's no "original sin". There was no time in which things were good and suddenly men, driven by greed, corruption or whatever, changed things around and turned them away from their original purpose. Christianity's mythical creation is so engraved in our social subconscious that we always tend to do these sorts of reasonings, in a lot of ways and in a lot of areas.

We can't really know, but I'm pretty sure religion (just like any other social phenomena in the history of mankind) wasn't born out of an individual idea, but rather as a social convention. And as such, social conventions are always composed by relationships of inequality. You can see it all throughout history. I don't think we need a mystical reason to single out religion and treat it as different.