Just want to see what people think.
2006-08-02 12:50:08 · 32 answers · asked by Indigo 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I meant the land itself originally. I purposely kept it vague, just wondering what others would say. And wondering what percentage would say the spiritual ways of the many different cultures that existed here before other people came. And more said so than I thought would. : ) Thanks for all the replies!
2006-08-02 13:08:27 · update #1
Native american spiritualism?
2006-08-02 12:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Polytheism, Paganism, Native American Shamanism. Whatever.
I really wish these Posters would quit being so narrow minded about religion. All paths are valid in our Creator's eyes. Humans are killing in the name of God as I type, and all these people can come up with is more religious hatred? Instead of arguing about faith, why not HAVE some? If people could quit slamming one another long enough to look around them to see the hatred they have caused.... maybe the world could be as one. But I don't see this happening anytime soon, people are way too hateful for peace on earth...
Blessed Be.
2006-08-02 13:05:45 · answer #2 · answered by Lauralanthalasa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For untold generations before Europeans came to America, native peoples celebrated the bounty given to them by the Great Spirit. Across America, such "Native American" tribes as the Algonquians, the Iroquois, Sioux, and the Seminoles worshiped the Great Spirit, who could be found in animals as well as inanimate objects. Elaborate rituals and such dances as the Sundance, Round, Snake, Crow, Ghost and others were developed and led by such native leaders as Wodiziwob, Wovoka, Black Elk, Big Foot, and Sitting Bull and others. As white colonists drove Indians onto reservations, the fervency of their religious practices increased, even as Christian missionaries made inroads that colored their spirituality
2006-08-02 12:56:31 · answer #3 · answered by FitzBaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Invisible Pink Unicorn frolicking with the Great Spirit.
2006-08-02 12:59:24 · answer #4 · answered by 自由思想家 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A number of religions were in existence when the U.S. was created. Your question is not clear.
If you mean what belief system the U.S. was founded upon, do not look to religion as it was designed to be, and has always been, a secular system.
2006-08-02 12:55:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Native American Spiritual beliefs
2006-08-02 12:55:30 · answer #6 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Native American beliefs. The first one of visitors would be the Norse religion. Puritanism was one of the first too, once the colonies were being set up.
2006-08-02 12:53:18 · answer #7 · answered by kea33w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forget religion.
Christ is the path of salvation.
Christ is the truth of God's Word.
Christ is the life eternal.
Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Christ is the tree of life.
Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
2006-08-02 12:53:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st was indigenous beliefs.
Next came Catholicism. Europeans came to the Americas before the Protestant Reformation. The Oldest Church in North America is a Catholic Church in St. Augustine, Florida.
Desoto also brought several Preist with him on his explorations in America.
2006-08-02 12:57:43 · answer #9 · answered by Augustine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you just counting the time that this land became the U.S. or from day one? Natives had their own beliefs...each tribe might have not sure about them...settlers from England probably brought over Catholicism??
2006-08-02 12:57:43 · answer #10 · answered by stowchick01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess the Native Peoples had their own belief systems. Not sure who was here before them.
2006-08-02 12:52:38 · answer #11 · answered by a sock 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋