In a purely existential sense a religion or at least an “old” religion is one that is based on values and virtues that allow a sustainable community to survive and thrive. Using the same principals of survival of the fittest one can deduce that any religion with rituals or traditions that harmed or hampered the community would die out and any religion that encourage procreation and community would have a greater chance of surviving.
It is from these laws and rituals that, over time, ethical standpoints are formed by a community. By generations of human conditioning it then becomes unthinkable for the unethical act to be considered normal. In the case of marriage in this sense there are a few main benefits. Namely its effect on procreation and biodiversity, having an alpha male as a single breeding stud for a community would limit the biodiversity of any colony of organisms (in this case humans) whilst slowing down procreation as there can only be a certain amount of impregnations at a time (lacking the ability to be in two places at once). Another notable effect of the family system is that it provides an instant community group that the person belongs to, having a default social setting means that there is less cases of depression and anti-communistic attitudes.
If an analytical standpoint is taken in the previous argument then it is arguable that the religious traditions could have originated not only from a profit but from qualitative observations of cause and effect.
If people keep having mutant children when they are born out of an interbred relationship then it is seen as an act of God as there is no other reason. It then passes into law that inbreeding cannot happen and as a law passes through time and generations under human conditioning of offspring it becomes a part of the community’s ethos to not inbreed. Therefore upon analytical results an ethic is formed.
Other examples of this occurring includes if a well is poisoned it becomes a sin to...
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