And has any survived to this day?
2007-06-19 11:37:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
try reading 'The history of Pagan Europe' forget the authors.
Anyways, so disgusted from 'Smithy's posts I'm leaving for now.... till the a**hole gets the account deleted.
2007-06-19 11:43:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A host of religions predate Christianity and survive today - Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism etc etc. In fact the only major religions which came after Christianity were Islam and Sikhism. So you might call Christianity the Middle Child. :-)
2007-06-19 12:21:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All religions that I know of except Islam and Mormonism predate Christianity.
And Christianity came directly from Judaism. Many of the concepts, prayers and rituals came from Judaism. Did you know Jesus was a Jew? Did you know that at the Last Supper, Jesus was celebrating Passover with his disciples. They were having a Seder which is the Passover meal.
2007-06-19 17:09:30 · answer #3 · answered by Ravenfeather 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greek, Egyptian, Celtic, Jainism, Judaism, Taoism, Buddhism, Babylonian, Sumerian and Hinduism just off the top of my head.
Yes, I have heard of practitioners of ALL the religions I named and have talked to several as well.
2007-06-19 11:44:41 · answer #4 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Judaism. Yes- it's still around today. Anything before Jesus is predating Christianity.
2007-06-19 11:42:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pretty much all of them!
Christianity is only 2000 years old and yet the western world is geared up to accommodate it!
Bhuddism, Paganism, Islam, Judaeism. All older
2007-06-19 19:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the assumption of hell grew to become into already recent in Judaism earlier the time of Christ. Early Jewish perception grew to become into merely that the ineffective went to a place of darkness and shadows, yet a greater progressed theory-approximately heaven and hell starts off to alter into obvious in the later previous testomony writings. specially, Daniel 12:2 talks appropriate to the ineffective increasing, and a few dealing with 'eternal shame and contempt'. there's a miles less clean occasion in 2 Maccabees 7, the place seven brothers dealing with torture and martydom show their faith in the resurrection and their advantageous desire that their tormenter would be punished for his sins. outdoors of the Judaeo-Christian custom, i think of that the classic Egyptians had a theory-approximately punishment after dying for sinners, yet i do no longer understand whether this grew to become into thougt to be an eternal punishment.
2016-12-13 07:38:35 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judaism
2007-06-19 11:40:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Tribal, Hinduism, Buddhism. Oh and Judaism!
2007-06-19 11:40:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, most pagan religions, etc.
2007-06-19 11:41:58 · answer #10 · answered by Netti 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋