Are there any religions that were not started from the suffering and persecution of an individual?

Answer 1

Shinto. Hinduism.

Answer 2

When God made the covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15 all seemed peaceful and that was not based on the suffering of anybody. (Judaism)

Answer 3

Yes, Jedi

Answer 4

Wiccian?

Answer 5

Islam.

Answer 6

Yes . To my knowledge there is one . That is what people call hinduism. That is not in fact a religon created by any individual under some historic conditons of necessity that prevailed at the time of thier creatin. It is a culture that came otbe vcalled as hiduism by the Arab traders and the european invaders and foreing visitors to the sub-continent of inida. The religons has it siroots in athe cutural habits og the poeple living south of the hialayas and it has its origin not on the clamity and suffering r persecution of the the people , but in the minds of people in an organized society that had everything for everyubody's need and had enouth leisure to think about the purpose of life and the creation of the universe and the inquest into the cause and effect of the natural phenamena in the universe and a reasearch in the effects of th eplanetary movements on the seasons and the huaman beings on the earth. so the culture and bundle of knowledge that was the philosphy of the people of this region came to be called a religon as it included mostly the divine qualities of Nature.
The basic principle of this philosophy is that eveything in the universe is in existence in God and that nothing animate or inanimate could exist without god and God is the soul of everybeing and thereis not place and nothing without the presence of god . This is the OMnipresence of god . so god can be seen ineverything . God is never out of sight to man and man is never out of sight of God .
This first principle brings in the omniscience of og . the second quality . Because of the omnipresence , - the presence in everything - the omnisciense - the knowledge of everything follows . God knows everything and nothing is beyond his ken/. this results in omnipotence .The third quality automatically follows . God is capapble of everything . So the very quality of of the existence of idolatory and the plural forms of worship is firmly grounded on the firm belief that god is in any and everything and he can be seen manifesting himslef in everything without exception. So the fomless and paramatman is manefesting himslef in everything in this universe .Since he is evrything you can see him everything . You can imagine him in any for that please you most and iny form that you can see in your mind all the time . If God can not be seen in any form ,you can not imagine of god in your mind at any time . you will see nothing of him in your mind . You know that it is your mind that sees things and not the eyes. If you close your eyes , you can not imafgine everything and see everythng known to you exceot god if you do not know him in particular foirm. But a Hindu when he needs the grace of god in any situation , can =see the particular form in which he please to see him and worship him even in mind .wherever he is . He ca see God even in the atom of air and so he does not have to go to any temple even.the whole universe being the God he is in god all the time .such is the character of this philosophy. This is how the idolatary has come in to practice and each hindu is capapble of seeing his god in any form he please and can call him by any name that appeals to him. the Hindu has the freedom , the true freedom in worship. he is not under compulsion to pay any thithe as in other religons . Rich or poor , he is not required to apy anything to any temple and it is each one 's option and sweet will and pleasure to give or not to give . Buit religomn advise them to feed th poor according to their capacity and wil and does not threaten any devotee with punishment in hell for worshiping any God . For ahind any man of any faith is the same and he has no malice against any faith . Because , faith aor no faith , a man is aman , a jeevan is a jeevan what ever it is , man or animal, for a hindu and god is in the sinner and saint . You can call God Allah ,Christ , of anything , even Kullah. It is all the same for a Hindu.Ateist and thiest , god is present in the souls of both .
for a hindu God does not expect anythng from the humans . it is the humans that offer anythin gof their own volition and god does njt confer specisl favour for one who gives and does not show any disfavour to th eone who does not give , though he owns a lot .
This is the way God inspires the humans to do anythng , their duty as a sacred sacrifice ofered to god withour any expectation of the fruit of the action - to do one's duty as a sacred ritual and an offereing og sacrifice top God . There you do not expct anything een form God .That is the supreme hight of a noble mind and greatness .
So this religon did not srise on the calamity of any group of people but on the affluence of people whoi had the eisur to disspationately research in to the causes and effect of nature and were able to dicover the secrets of ceration , susenance and annihilation and reemergence of the the universe in a cyclic action as propounded in teh Bhagavad Gita .tha tgies the essence of the hindu philosophy. the philosophy that the greatest scientist of the 29 Th century , Eistein himself commented as the science that has as rendered everything else in the century superfluous .

Answer 7

most of the pagan religions.

they do not tend to dwell on sufering.

Answer 8

probably but how relevant would they be if there was no understanding of this part of the human reality

Answer 9

Probably not, once one had the idea then "everyone's doing it" set it.

Answer 10

cant think of one