Buddhism is really old. And hinduism is even older...is so old, that they do not remember when the religion was first formed...there are different branches of hinduism..Judeism has a starting point...
I'll go have a look...
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I need to take a look too, because I think the Old Testament is the oldest and first written Holy book in the world. As for Buddhism I don't think is the oldest because Prince Siddhartha Gautama was born in 556 BC so therefore Buddhism can not be the older than Judaism.
Most reference books list Hinduism as the oldest world religion. This is probably because Hinduism has the oldest recorded roots, which lie in Dravidianism. Dravidianism is estimated to have been practiced around 6,000 to 3,000 BCE and as such predates the Sumerian, Egyptian, and Babylonian cultures.
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في هذا العالم ثلاثة أشخاص أفسدوا البشرية : راعي غنم , طبيب و راكب الجمال , و راكب الجمال هو أسوأ نشال و أسوأ مشعوذ بين الثلاثة
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So Hinduism is originally derives from Dravadianism? The Hebrew calendar states that creation happen in 3758 B.C.E. so maybe Hinduism might be older than I thought it was.
Paganism is far older than Christianity.
Wicca, Witchcraft are all from this.
I wrote my Degree study on this.
It was really good as living in Scotland there are plenty of ruins and standing stones to visit.
I'm interested in all Goddess based religions.
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Okay, we can all get confused.
In the beginning we had these Nature-religions all over the world. Shamanistic religions. They’re the oldest known religions and dates back to the dawn of humanity. They deal with nature and spirits – like American Indian and Eskimo beliefs.
Next comes the so-called temple-religions. They include Hinduism, Ancient Greek and Roman Gods, Norse Gods, Egyptian, Babylonian, Maya etc. They’re recognisable by having many Gods and Goddesses, who’re sometimes quite human, and you went to a temple to make sacrifices to get favours. These religions really started when humans started to settle in cities – the urbanisation period – some 12.000 years ago. Early Judaism was, for example, strongly influenced by Babylonian mythology. The ten commandments are almost an exact copy of the “Law of Hammurabi”, an ancient Babylonian King, who were given the law by a god.
Next are the prophet-religions. These religions are classified by having One God, and a man (always a man) a prophet, a messiah, someone who spreads the word. The first “prophet” is Siddhartha – Buddha, founder of Buddhism. The next is Jesus, the founder of Christianity and the third is Mohammed – the founder of Islam. These religions have a God who can read your mind – is omnipotent and removed from Earthly matters.
All prophet religions are a kind of version 2.0 of temple religions. Buddhism is derived from Hinduism. Christianity from Judaism, and Islam from both Christianity and Judaism.
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