2007-01-02 08:11:36 · 6 answers · asked by Dave 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Easy....newer religions are all manmade and are from those who cannot deal with authority. It seems that just about anyone these days can go off and start their own church. I know of people who have done just that. This does not make their churches true churches....just someone's desire to push their own agenda since as they couldn't agree with the more than 2,000+ denominations out there.
Even the Lutheran church is named after its founder! So is the Calvinist church.
2007-01-02 08:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by The Carmelite 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's hard, what is "newer" and "older"? Are older religions pre-Christ? Or are they pre-protestant? Or just pre-whatever arbitrary date you want to set? Are you just talking about Christian religions?
It seems to me every Christian religion has gone away from that which Christ taught, or at least ignore how his ministry and church worked. Like where on earth did the "Pope" come from? If he is the successor to Peter, then why isn't he an "apostle"? Did God stop speaking to man? For thousands of years (at least according to the Bible) God talks to mankind, but then all of a sudden he stops? Why? Because he no longer loves mankind? He thinks he provided enough guidance in the previous 4000 years that we don't need anymore? That seems rediculous and very unloving. Anyway, without narrowing your question down some I really don't know where to go with this.
If you're talking Christianity, then I think you have to start from Catholicism and break it down. If Catholicism is wrong, why? If it is something foundational, then did a particular protestant religion that broke away fix that? Or does there need to be authority from God to act? Other than that you have reformist and restorationist. I say, if if the Catholics got it wrong, then most likely anyone that broke off of the Catholics (many hundreds of years later) likely have a mixed up picture also. If that's the case, then there must be a restoration of the authority that Christ obviously gave to his disciples to lead the church.
Maybe you'll ask another question and I'll be able to be more clear. Good luck.
2007-01-02 09:57:38 · answer #2 · answered by straightup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think religions are all similar in the fact that each one has to do with their being more than just this earth. New religions are for people who need spiritualty in their lives and can't feel spiritual with the many religions that already exist. or sometimes people create new religions because they have a large ego, and can't follow anyone else's religion. Whatever the reasons, I don't think it makes any difference whether it's a new or old religion, religion is believing in more than just life. However, I think life is enough to think about, without causing more to think about. So I don't understand why anybody would need to create new religions.
2007-01-02 08:17:46 · answer #3 · answered by Bedam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the advent of Jesus and the New Testament, western religion is a "kinder, gentler" religion compared to the fire and brimstone of the Old Testament. The muslim religions tend to favor the Old Testament more. Modern religions, like those of the Christian Scientist, tend to be more secular, or Scientology, which tends to be a modern idiocy. They are all similar in that they are all man-made inventions.
2007-01-02 08:51:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is a new religion, I know Scientology and Mormon types are new but other than that they are all 1500 years old or older.
2007-01-02 08:15:05 · answer #5 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they aren't, they all try to make peeps conform to their convoluted way of thinking
2007-01-02 08:13:57 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋