What is the world's oldest religion?

Answer 1

The Rainbow Serpent?

"AUSTRALIA's Aborigines have the oldest religion on Earth, according to a team of Australian and British archaeologists. The researchers argue that rock paintings of a mythical being called the Rainbow Serpent are icons of a religion that began 6000 years ago in Arnhem Land in northwestern Australia."

Answer 2

The oldest organized form of religion was Sumerian, in Mesopotamia. As for religion in general, animism, the worship of animal spirits, and indiginous pagan religions who worshipped things like the sun came not long after animism. Hinduism however is the oldest religion that has continued to be practiced throughout history, and is still practiced to this day in the same or very similar form to the original. Most pagan religions, though some may be older than hinduism, are reconstuctions of the originals that at some point people stopping following and started again in later years.

Zoroastrianism is very old as well, but the Sumerian religion is much older than it was, and Hinduism is slightly older than it was. Some very early Persian and other beliefs that spawned Zoroastianism also are some of the basis for judeo-christian beliefs, along with egyptian. And to add to this, the previous post is wrong, you can join or become hindu, you do not have to be born into it.

Answer 3

The oldest continuously practiced religious system is hard to define since a number of them go back before recorded history though would most likely be Hinduism. Other possibly older systems have existed such as in China or among aboriginal cultures but have not lasted intact to modern times due to colonialism or modern day political changes.

Answer 4

Shamanism is believed to be the first ever religion. It is suppost to pre-date recorded history and is the bases of a lot of modern Pagan beliefs.

Though, there is no way to really tell what the first and oldest really is. It is a question that has sparked debate around the world for generations.

Answer 5

Archeologists have discovered flower pollen in the graves of Neanderthals dating back tens of thousands of years, suggesting that they were buried with flowers because they had a belief in an afterlife of some kind. Perhaps religion predated our own species.

Answer 6

Continuously practiced, either Hinduism or Zoroastrianism.

Being practiced again after a brief interruption, all things considered *G* any of the reconstructed indigenous folkways might quality----the primary deities of Asatru, for example, are clearly identifiable in Neolithic and early Bronze Age petroglyphs.

Answer 7

Paganism

Answer 8

judaism

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judaism is the oldest religion that is still practiced today, os i don't know why i got thumbs down

Answer 9

Hinduism & Zoroastrianism

Answer 10

I'm guessing it's some form of Paganism.