What do you believe a religion is? By the words you use it seems you think that there is one that is true & the rest are false?
In reality, the 1st. act of "religion" made by man took place right after Adam digested the fruit from the tree of "KNOWLEDGE".
Upon finding themselves naked Adam & Eve, not Steve, by the way, decided to cover-up their nakedness from each other & hide from God. Now keep in mind that this character, God, was the Creator. He had a lot of power & Adam & Eve were afraid, they just had to hide from the big guy.because they just knew that He would be very angry with them for disobeying Him.
As the story goes, they sawed fig leaves together & covered their bodies up with them & hid from God.
The act of using fig leaves to cover their nakedness or what really comes down to covering the result of their disobedience, sin.
Some other important result of Adam & Eves disobedience were;
#1) They fell from superior beings bestowed with great natural knowledge & masters over God`s Creation
#2) Their God given status also gave them the power to judge the very Angels themselves. Something which greatly annoyed Satan, Lucifer, the God created Archangel who prior to the creation Of Adam & Eve & his rebellious fall had the distinct privileges of being in charge over God`s creation & the lead Music Director in God`s Choir. In fact he enjoyed his unique status as God`s .....Foreman?; very much.
Anyway, his status, he thought, was second only to God`s. You see where Lucifer forgot himself? There was never any way that he could even compare himself, just a tiny little bit, to God.
But he decided that he could do a much better job than God; remember the saying: "Pride goes before a great fall"?
Well, he sure did have 1 great fall & nothing could put him back together again because nobody influenced him in going that way. He rebelled by himself & influenced other Angels in to following him all by himself.
This makes for a great difference between his rebellious fall & Adam & Eve`s influenced decision to disobey God`s command.
Once God replaced Lucifer with Adam & Eve (HUMANS) as caretakers of His Creation & gave them the authority to at some point judge the created Angels, & to top it off with giving Eve the added status of bringing the seed of God`s Savior into the world after their fall, puts a huge hatred directed at all humans from Satan but even a greater hatred directed at the woman.
Getting back to religion, it is an act by man & woman to cover their disobedience & guilt by their own means & God`s response.
How long would the fig leaves covering them last? How would they protect humans from the elements?
God`s infinite wisdom went to work & sadly, innocent animals had to bear the price for Adam & Eve`s decision by the shedding of their blood.
This was the 1st. blood sacrifice offered by a living & loving God in order to benefit human beings.
Religion is man`s attempt to cover his sinfulness through his own means.
There is no true religion that can get man close to God. No religion leads man to God or will ever save man from sin.
Jesus, the Savior is the only way to God. He`s the perfect sacrifice & the only one who can establish a relationship with God, no religion has the power to do this.
Jesus came to reveal God`s plan for our salvation, He is the way & the light that shines on the darkness of our sins, & the plan is a personal relationship with God, between the Creator & His Creation.
In simple words, Jesus came to destroy the concept of religion & to establish a Church made up of believers.
No religion is the correct one & I know this because innocent animals had to die because of our sins.