 Do you believe religion was originally a form of law? I would say no, I don't believe that. When we go back into deep antiquity, it's hard to say what religion is. Because what we might today call religious beliefs were so integrated into other beliefs and practices that there was no separate category called religion in ancient times. Law, again, originated through tacit social agreements, values, taboos. I guess to call it law, we have to go back to when it was codified, which happened in the early mass civilizations. I guess it would make sense that formalized religion with written dogmas would coerise with formalized social agreements called laws. So yeah, maybe there's a connection there.