Prosetic License - But the origins of all modern religions did not...

There is no derivation of the word prose that is analogous to the word poetic, so I made one up. That in itself is an example of Prosetic License.

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But the origins of all modern religions did not come about in the present. They first appeared among people and cultures in the distant past, centuries or even millennia ago, when even the most basic scientific understanding of the world was absent and superstitions of all kinds ran wild. Should we be willing to believe that people who knew so little compared to us nevertheless managed to see so far ahead of us?

— http://www.daylightatheism.org/2008/01/on-the-limits-of-knowledge.html