Ok people, explain this to me.........?

well i think religion was used to explain things that were happenening at the time when the religion was first created and it was also you to instill fear into ppl to get them to do things like donate money to a church or to someone and its used like a threat at times like heres an example "if you dont believe in god, go to church every sunday and any other times, give the church your money, vote for these ppl bc they are christians too you will go to hell and be tortured for eternity but if u do do all of those things you will go to heaven with jesus and god"