This never happened. There is evidence that this did not occur and could not have occurred.
I have no interest in belittling people who choose to be religious, religion has been and continues to slowly ebb away as humans have gained the ability to understand the true nature of things rather than resort to making up stories. We are already seeing a natural progression away from mysticism, the only thing needed to help it along is continued discovery and research, not hopeless debate against entrenched faiths. There is no sensible debate with faith belief systems, because there is not one iota of evidence in support of these beliefs, versus the mountains of evidence that prove them false. When you put away the feelings that foster faith; fear primarily and irrational imagination, there is nothing on faith's side to actually debate on but a book of stories. But this above quote is an example of what religion expects you to do; be irrational and believe falsehoods about the nature of the physical universe.
No amount of wordsmithing or justifications ever escape an end-game of having to believe things that are simply untrue in order to remain faithful to your chosen dogma.
Faith in religions comes about from human's self awareness. Manifests from that awareness due to it making us conscious of our inevitable death. That knowledge is a weakness that can be exploited. Fear of death, fear of the death of those we care about and fear of the threat religions use for not following them. It's an exploitation of fear and uncertainty. There is also the ego component because we have this inherent sense that the human animal is somehow special from having the most advanced brain letting us dominate the Earth. A better understanding of the physically very minute differences between humans and other species helps the realization that it's only very tiny differences that give way to our species' particular traits. We have the largest primate brain and that gave way to self-awareness. It's nothing magical or special, no matter how much it 'feels right' to think so, we're only a few steps away from other primates and in fact all species share much of the same DNA as we do, holding up our shared ancestry with everything else on the planet.
Society is going to be better off once religion has been relegated to the fringes. It's not even so much the conflicts and strife the differences in the various beliefs cause. The worst offense is the waste of time. We have a very short time here and all the time wasted squabbling over and devoting to these myths is time wasted. One of the most poignant thing said about faith and how silly it is, is that it is geographical. If you were born in the Middle East, you'd likely be a Muslim and believe that. In North America, you'll likely be a Christian. In Israel, probably Jewish. You wouldn't have found your way to your current faith somehow, you'd just believe the one you were born around and raised into. In most cases it holds out that one's particular religion is a matter of coincidence of geographic birth location, your parents beliefs and your strength of conviction for or against what they may have tried to instill in you. There is no universal constant to it like all the faiths would claim where the 'one true faith' transcends your exposure to one of the other 'incorrect faiths' due to geographic birth location.
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