also, which was created first?
FYI: I'm athiest so don't try to say any one is the best because to me all of them make no sense.
2006-06-20 11:31:26 · 13 answers · asked by Marc 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
FYI I'm a Christian...if you read any history at all, religion has been around since humans became in existence. Every culture discovered by archeologist's has had some form of a God. From the ancient Aztecs, ancient Egyptians, and the Mesopotamians. The Majority of humans on this earth (87%) believe in one God or another...their "religion". It is only the Atheist who do not believe in any power greater than themselves. Pretty weird.
2006-06-20 11:47:11 · answer #1 · answered by mslorikoch 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Religion has been around since man evolved enough to think abstractly. "Hey Kronk!" "What?", "What's that's big hot, bright thing in the sky? I never really noticed it before."
"That's the Sun god man!" "You don't know the sun god?" "Don't piss of the Sky Gods or there will be hell to pay".
The sun gave us heat, light and the sky rained on us to cool us, give us life giving water and helped grow our crops. It's no wonder just about every ancient religion had sky and/or sun god.
Maybe you would be interesting some of the other questions I've answered and asked. As quite a few of them have to deal with this.
2006-06-20 18:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by send_felix_mail 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I remember correctly, Hinduism is the oldest of modern religions. But, modern religions are not the original religions. I would assume that religions started back when primitive man wanted an answer to why they were here, lightning, rain, etc...a simplified form of what Native American religions were/are like.
2006-06-20 18:39:09 · answer #3 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was going to say when man created fire, because ancient man worshiped fire ... but they worshiped fire as well as the sky, the ocean, the Earth, and the cosmos. I think religion started out of not being able to understand nature in the scientific manor we do today.
We created religion. Religion didn't create us. Thus, man came first before religion.
2006-06-20 18:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by Joa5 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was started by Bob on 1000 East Main Street.
2006-06-20 18:34:44 · answer #5 · answered by kirreb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was when people sat around the fire at night talking about what happened to so and so after they died, this is when human had developed communication skills. Certainly an a-s-s-h-o-l-e came up with God story and that started it all.
2006-06-20 18:55:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah religion was started by ignorant old men to control women and children
2006-06-20 18:39:06 · answer #7 · answered by Goodness 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
paganism was the first religion.paganism is a sect f several polytheistic religion on which christianty today was formed from...look at the similarities between paganism and catholocism
2006-06-20 18:42:43 · answer #8 · answered by curb_stomp_that_azz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think religion was first conceived in ancient Mesopotamia (in Iraq, by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers). i cant remember what they called it. all i know is one of their gods was called Abu, i think he was the god of water. religion is such a waste of good human creativity.
2006-06-20 18:37:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first time it rained after a long drought...the first thing said, "Thank G-d for rain!!"
2006-06-20 18:36:15 · answer #10 · answered by Buddha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋