On the contrary, I would argue that our default belief state is one full of scary monsters trying to kills us and whirling lights flying around overhead and oh no what this loud noise and why am I wet
...I can’t imagine a human ancestor in that kind of situation not coming up with some kind of desperate Pascal’s wager of, “I’ll do this ritualistic dance to the harvest goddess because it’s not really that much trouble to do in the grand scheme of things, and man if there’s any chance of improving the odds of a good harvest, I’m shakin’ my rain-maker.” Soon you can add, “and everyone else says it works” to the list, and bam, religion.
Amen. Blue vs. Green thinking is the norm, and I have been accused (negatively) of being a liberal and a conservative in the same day.
Your opinion doesn’t sound like mine, so it’s probably the other side’s opinion.