One where the average person wouldn't say, "That's a cult." Like Scientology.
2006-09-18 06:18:32 · 15 answers · asked by parkdad73 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They are all cults!
2006-09-18 06:19:54 · answer #1 · answered by angela 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Islam..... out of the big three (Cr. Jd. Is) is the youngest... only 1500 years old...quite the new kid on the block.
Hinduism and Buddhism and Shintoism are all older by far
If you divide The Big Three into sub groups you get more options to choose from but these are not religions so much as sub categories.
Eg. Christianity : Eastern Orthodox predates Catholic
Lutheran Predates Methodist (being the youngest of the true groups.... not wacko's)
church of Mormon being the youngest of the big groups.
Judaism: Kabbalah sprung up during the middle ages .
Islam : Sunni and Shi'ite, they split right after the founding .
The youngest established faith (legally speaking) may well be the Church of Mormon, but I'd double check the dates of Wesley's Methodist ministry's.
Hope this helps
2006-09-18 13:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Zarathustra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wicca. It's not major yet but its been growing very fast since the 1970s... It's only been officially a religion for a short while. And out of all the Pagan religions, it's the most popular from what I've heard.
2006-09-18 13:26:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably Wicca. Wicca, as modern times knows it, came about in the 1900's, though it's roots goes back to ancient Celtic and Norse times. The belief itself, however, is a conglomeration of various Western European agragarian and nature-worshipping pagan beliefs, and was refined by Gerald Gardner into the belief it is today. It has been said that Wicca is the 2nd fastest growing religion in the U.S., next to Islam.
2006-09-18 13:31:07 · answer #4 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LDS. The mormons are a branch off of christianity but completely different. Not all people would say that they are a cult, but only mormons would say that they are christian.
2006-09-18 13:27:14 · answer #5 · answered by 93.5% Right 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientology if you care to degrade your own intelligence, and call it a religion. Otherwise I'd say either Rastafarianism, or maybe jedism. May the force be with you.
2006-09-18 13:21:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sikhism is probably one of the world's youngest "mainstream" religions, it's origins only going as far back as the 1500's.
2006-09-18 13:21:26 · answer #7 · answered by Maxx Power 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will concur that LDS (Mormons) are different enough from other christian religions that they count as a whole new religion. Even though they share much with religions before them. Christianity/Masons
2006-09-18 13:21:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Islam is the youngest, Hinduism is the oldest by far, tracing beyond our records.
2006-09-18 13:20:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Church of Latter Day Saints - The Mormons
2006-09-18 13:20:04 · answer #10 · answered by holden 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
already came in here now You didnt say that on the heading
the newest ones are the cults like Mormons and JW
Catholics and Lutherans and Methodist have been around...
2006-09-18 13:21:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋