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       Many things have happened in my life for which I had intense longing,

       but which I could never have achieved myself.

       And I have always said to my co-workers it was in answer to my prayer.

       Mahatma Gandhi

      The prayer is something that most probably comes into being at the moment when man is born.

      The history of humanity can be compared to the existence of a single person, therefore the evolution that accompanies the human race, we can compare it to the existence of a person that grows up, that from childhood becomes adult.

      And, at the dawn of man’s existence, we can compare him to a newborn, completely at the mercy of everything, defenseless and not self-sufficient.

      The newborn needs security and love, he needs to be supported, followed, has no skills and needs to be guided.

      And the newborn humanity had such needs, it was unprotected compared to a hostile and mysterious world, whose forces were frightening and uncontrollable.

      The world around was seen as dangerous and deity or deities were powers to be afraid.

      The prayers, in that stage of development of religion, what are the animist religions that still survive in certain primitive tribes, the few that still exist, were aimed at appeasing their wrath.

      The gods were powerful and capricious, and prayer was a hope to avoid their destructive fury.

      Man was a toy in the hands of powers that dominated the entire universe and, as such, completely at the mercy of the humor of divinities, like a child that, without reason, destroys what he had previously created.

      Later on humanity, continuing to evolve as a child who gradually acquires new abilities and greater independence, finds itself facing a new step of religious development, the one born with the Sumerians, the mother religion of Judaism and the Old Testament, as shown by the fact that Abraham, founder of the Jewish race, was form Ur, a city first Sumerian and the Babylonian.

      Let’s leave aside the Eastern religions that followed a different course, all of them developed from Hinduism which, in full probability, predated the Sumerian religion and was the only religion, after which there was he split between Hinduism, more marker towards the spiritual world where earthly existence was seen as illusory, and Sumerian existence which was instead based on the material world and how to act on the world.

      So, what changes do we see the advent of this new religion, which has then diversified itself among the various cults, including Judaism?

      The idea of divinity changes.

      The deity is still seen as powerful and often capricious, unpredictable and irascible, but man tries, through prayer, to ingratiate himself in its favors.

      If before the divinity was a blind fury, a dispenser of life and death at her own pleasure, she has now turned into a God who, if treated in the right way, can also help the individual man and the various human races.

      This is the birth of behavioral ethics, whereby through righteousness we become friendly to the divine eyes and therefore worthy.

      The same as the child who realizes that, with certain behaviors, he is evaded, punished or even beaten, while with others he makes satisfied his parents.

      By chance, from Sumerians the story begins and the prehistory ends, and this is established because of the first written document, which was nothing but a code of behavior, the famous law of the eye for eye, tooth for tooth.

      If you wired an eye to someone, yours will be taken away, a simple and very common law in children’s minds and, alas, even in a lot of adults.

      The child thinks in this way, if he is given a kick, it’s right for him to return it, if a toy is stolen, he feels in the right to steal to counterbalance the bad at once.

      So, the prayer is still dominated by fear of a dangerous divinity, by it is permeated by the hope of being able to ingratiate it.

      God himself follows the same human evolution, transforming himself from being capricious to ethical, if he is treated with the proper ways.

      The last true religious development, what should represent the transition from a childish humanity to a teenage humanity, which is on its way to the adult stage, is Christianity, the advent of Christ.

      From this point of view, Christ completely overthrows all of mankind because it is still powerful and therefore capable of working miracles, but which allows itself to be killed without manifesting its strength.

      The Doctrine of Christ focuses on unconditional love, it teaches us to abandon the law of the retribution, to stop

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