I grew up Mormon and had a hard time believing that we were the “true church,” “taught the true teachings.,” etc., when I learned about how many different current and old religions and beliefs people had throughout human history. Cracks started to form in my faith foundation then. The following thoughts throw me for a loop back then. Exibit A. Exibit B. Exibit C.
There are over 40,000 sects of christianity last I knew. I’m going to say thousands isn’t an overexageration. I won’t consider religions the same if they have different beliefs.
Part of it is probably what determines what counts as “a religion.” My mind went to indigenous groups in the Americas, Australia, and Africa - thousands seems appropriate there!
Historically, religions as practiced on the ground were very syncretistic - like in the late medieval Muslim world, a Christian might carry a verse from the Koran as a charm or Muslim might visit a rabbi. Not to say that there wasn’t religious persecution and attempts by religious authorities to make sure that everyone was following the rules, but the species of religious fundamentalism we see today is a product of the 19th century and widespread literacy.
Even within a modern Protestant church of a specific denomination, there’s probably a mix of people who are universalists, into spiritualism, etc.
I don’t really think religions can be considered discrete in a way that one could report “there are X religions in the world.”
I wasn’t able to find Babi, but did find Bahai and Mormon in the tree. I don’t have the time right now to try to find the others, but I’m going to guess that they’re in there or didn’t make the cut when making the tree.
Do you happen to know where a higher resolution version of this image is?
I am not very knowledgeable about religion but that chart buckets European Animism as one “Religion” while I think it was not organized and refers to the disparate beliefs of folks in the area at the time, so one could argue that there were lots of version I think.
I which part I said otherwise? Asia is a region, that includes countries like Japan, China, Taiwan, the Koreas, etc… but I never said it was limited to China. My point was that the population of China is almost half of the world, if not pass that already, that is why I said that the christianity is not the biggest religion out there like the other user claimed.
Basically to make it easier, China, part of Asia, is almost half of the population, they are not in the mayority christians, so by that I am saying that christianity is not the biggest religion in the world, also, contemplating that there are christians, catholics and protestants, among other derivations of it,
that makes your claim claim even more wrong.
I never said anything about the middle east. I said Asia, so by definition, all the regions that are inside of Asia, included but not limited to China.
And still, Muslims are not even the mayority in ASIA
Tbh everyone probably worships the same god, people really stopped following religion or have never followed it, atleast the majority, it’s just used as an excuse to get away with whatever you want to do and stop people from questioning it.
The thing I love about religion is that there are thousands of them, yet yours is the correct one? Those are pretty low odds.
The odds dip much further due to all of them being made up horse shit.
Hey! Don’t insult horsies! They have much better religions.
I don’t recognize that pony.
That is Lauren Faust’s OC. Lauren is the creator of "Friendship is Magic " AKA generation 4 of My Little Pony.
Did not expect to see mlp here <3
Yeah… “thousands of them” is overexaggerated. That being said, there have been a lot of faiths, myths, and mysticism throughout human history..
Here’s an interesting timeline of belief systems.
I grew up Mormon and had a hard time believing that we were the “true church,” “taught the true teachings.,” etc., when I learned about how many different current and old religions and beliefs people had throughout human history. Cracks started to form in my faith foundation then. The following thoughts throw me for a loop back then. Exibit A. Exibit B. Exibit C.
There are over 40,000 sects of christianity last I knew. I’m going to say thousands isn’t an overexageration. I won’t consider religions the same if they have different beliefs.
Part of it is probably what determines what counts as “a religion.” My mind went to indigenous groups in the Americas, Australia, and Africa - thousands seems appropriate there!
Historically, religions as practiced on the ground were very syncretistic - like in the late medieval Muslim world, a Christian might carry a verse from the Koran as a charm or Muslim might visit a rabbi. Not to say that there wasn’t religious persecution and attempts by religious authorities to make sure that everyone was following the rules, but the species of religious fundamentalism we see today is a product of the 19th century and widespread literacy.
Even within a modern Protestant church of a specific denomination, there’s probably a mix of people who are universalists, into spiritualism, etc.
I don’t really think religions can be considered discrete in a way that one could report “there are X religions in the world.”
That timeline leaves off The Babis, The Baha’is, The Mormons, and tons of fracturing among Christians and Muslims, that I am aware of.
It also ignores Shintoism, Daoism, and the other far eastern belief systems.
Also I am intentionally not counting Scientology, because that was a bet.
I wasn’t able to find Babi, but did find Bahai and Mormon in the tree. I don’t have the time right now to try to find the others, but I’m going to guess that they’re in there or didn’t make the cut when making the tree.
No surprise on the Babi. They either became Baha’is, or got massacred by the Persian Army.
Do you happen to know where a higher resolution version of this image is?
I am not very knowledgeable about religion but that chart buckets European Animism as one “Religion” while I think it was not organized and refers to the disparate beliefs of folks in the area at the time, so one could argue that there were lots of version I think.
Regardless really fascinating info.
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Both the Tree of Religion and the Religion Timeline use Common Era as their year notation.
Overr 18,000 at last count
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Dude more than half of the population on thr planet are asians… and last time I saw, the Chinese main religion is not christianity
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I which part I said otherwise? Asia is a region, that includes countries like Japan, China, Taiwan, the Koreas, etc… but I never said it was limited to China. My point was that the population of China is almost half of the world, if not pass that already, that is why I said that the christianity is not the biggest religion out there like the other user claimed.
Basically to make it easier, China, part of Asia, is almost half of the population, they are not in the mayority christians, so by that I am saying that christianity is not the biggest religion in the world, also, contemplating that there are christians, catholics and protestants, among other derivations of it, that makes your claim claim even more wrong.
FYI, the Middle East is in Asia.
I never said anything about the middle east. I said Asia, so by definition, all the regions that are inside of Asia, included but not limited to China.
And still, Muslims are not even the mayority in ASIA
Tbh everyone probably worships the same god, people really stopped following religion or have never followed it, atleast the majority, it’s just used as an excuse to get away with whatever you want to do and stop people from questioning it.
I have no idea
Christianity. … 31% Islam…24.9 % Unaffiliated… 15.6 % Hinduism… 15.2 % Buddhism… 6.6 %
… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations