What was the first religion? "Organized" religion?

Question

I've been told Judaism. I know this to be quite obviously false.

I mean Judaism as the very first religion. It was not. Therefore, to state so is false. Although, personally, I don't think Judaism is at all a reliable religion. I've read the Toran.

Answer 1

The Mother Goddess

In about 7200 B.C. a settlement, Catal Huyuk (Çatal Hüyük), developed in Anatolia, south central Turkey. About 6000 Neolithic people lived there, in fortifications of linked rectangular mud-brick buildings. Food was mostly hunted or gathered, but the inhabitants also raised animals and stored surplus grains.
So far, Catal Huyuk is considered the oldest
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/neareast/g/CatalHuyuk.htm

There was found a carving of MANY carvings of a "MOTHER GODDESS"

striking feature of Catalhoyuk are its female figurines. Mellaart, the original excavator, argued that these well-formed, carefully made figurines, carved and molded from marble, blue and brown limestone, schist, calcite, basalt, alabaster and clay, represented a female deity. Although a male deity existed as well, “…statues of a female deity far outnumber those of the male deity, who moreover, does not appear to be represented at all after Level VI”.[2] These careful figurines were found primarily in areas Mellaart believed to be shrines. One, however – a stately seated Goddess flanked by two lions – was found in a grain bin, which Mellaart suggests might have been a means of ensuring the harvest or protecting the food supply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catal_Huyuk#Religion

Judaism is the oldest MONOTHEIST religion!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism

Answer 2

Well being Jewish is a matter of bloodline and belief in one God. The Bible, being a very old work, advises that it can trace it's religion back as far as any... Judaism changed signifigantly after they left Egypt. It can trace it's way to Ur of Sumeria through Abraham, and traces Abrahams lineage further back than that to people that is calls beliviers.

So.... it isn't "quite obviously false"

It MIGHT NOT BE, but the bona fides are as strong as any.

EDIT ---- Well, you area assuming that the holy books and religious traditions of the Jews are false.... They are the ones that claim their antiquity, not I. So you need to disprove those books, which can't easily be done.

As far as having read the "Toran" and coming to your conclusion that the Jewish faith is "not reliable". READ THE RIGHT BOOK. THE TORAN is not a jewish text. The TORAH is...

Answer 3

The two oldest religions in the world are Islam and Judaism. Why do you think Judaism is false?

Answer 4

the oldest forms of religion are no longer in existence. some of the oldest forms of organized religion were the polytheistic cults of the Dravidians (Pre-Hinduism, which is itself older than Judaism), goddess cults in/around the ancient cities of Catal-Hayuk (sp?) and shamanistic cultures throughout Asia (especially Siberia)...these cultures/religions are easily 10,000+ years old....of course only archaeological evidence confirms their existence because these are literally "pre-historic" (i.e. not literate) societies and there isn't any written record of what they believed, etc.

Answer 5

The oldest surviving organized religion would be Hinduism or Zoroastrianism

Answer 6

Judiasm as we know it today is not the first organized religion. There different forms of paganism that come first.

Answer 7

No-one knows what the first religion was, but the earliest recorded religion is Sumarian.

Answer 8

Probably a form of Sun worship or primitive ancestor worship. There have been some ancient burial sites found that show some kind of ritual.

Answer 9

well there must have been a lot of organising going on the build Stonehenge, but what they called their religion has long since passed our knowing

Answer 10

If God would write would His hand which religion is the true and first..we wouldn't be necessary to believe...meaning to obey the One who comands ''You shall not have other gods before Me''.