Most successful (most followwed) religion?

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Most successful (most followwed) religion?

Which of these do you think were worshiped the most (as a sum of the followers per capita around the world for each year, going back 10'000 years?)

Yahweh/Jehovah
Christian Trinity
Allah
Bhudda
Egyptian Gods (amun re, osiris ...)
Greco Roman Gods (zeus, cronos, Uranus)
Hindu Gods (brama, shiva ...)
Norse Gods (odin, thor...)
Japanese gods (inzagi, inzami)
Chinese Gods
Aztec Gods
Olmec Gods
Incan Gods
Mayan Gods
Babyllonian Gods
Sumerian Gods
Hittite Gods
Persian Gods
Aboriganie Gods
Native American gods
Celtic Gods
African Gods
Other

???

Remember, the most success of the religion is determined by the sum of the following for that religion (as a %age of the worlds population) for each year in the last 10'000 years..

I would probably think that its the jewish god, as they are the one of todays world religions that has been around for the longest time.

Either that, or it would be the egyptian gods (7 millennia of history)

well it sure aint Norse god, it is christianity without a doubt they have many followers today and forced people into beliveing in it in the past so christianity is the most followed religion as of up till today...

but its not the NUMBER of people that have followwed it, its the PERCENTAGE of the world throughout human history. Christianity has only been one of the largest world religions for about 1600 years, whereas judaism has existed for about 4000 years, and the egyptians had their pantheon worshipped by a world power for thousands of years as well

your question was most successful(most followed) religion, I answerd the latter part

There should be "Father, the Almighty God"

Not just Christian Trinity, and Yahweh/Jehovah because not all Christians believe in the Trinity, and not all Christians also call the God as "Jehovah". Jehovah is an erroneous transliteration, I should say.

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yeah he forgott Finti the unavoidable destiny too

Hmmm. The Jewish religion has been around for a very long time, but in terms of human population percentage, well, its often been the minority. Likewise the various other middle eastern + Greek ones listed, while lasted for thousands of years, existed in a time when the largest of cities consisted of only about 20,000 people or less, and have been gone a long time.

If a list was made, based on who had the largest percentage of believers over all, Christianity and Islam would be at the top, maybe with Hindi religion next. As really those three have had more believers it seems in the last 500 years then most other religions in the past ever had... that said I think Islam is very close to taking over Christianity.

that said I think Islam is very close to taking over Christianity
the latest number I have seen is 2.1 billion for chrisitianity and 1.3 billion for Islam

Major Religions of the World
Ranked by Number of Adherents

wehat doesnt come forth in this though is that the two largest seems to be dropping in numbers

As I thought. And I meant close to. Considering the most populous nations on earth (baring India) are mainly Islamic or non Christian, and that the traditional western/Christian countries are suffering from an aging population and decreasing birth rate, meaning that Islam quite possibly over take it in the relatively near future.

http://www.zpub.com/un/pope/relig.html

Worldreligions and # of followers in the mid 1990’s.

Eleveninches> For the last 10.000 years? As far as I know Judaism (the root of Christianity and Islam) is some 4000 years old, the same goes for Hinduism. So I doubt you need to go 10.000 years back.
Unless you want to include under one umbrella shamanistic religions.

"two largest seems to be dropping in numbers"
Quite true, there is an increasing turn to alternate/new age or Buddhist religions or that of atheism.

quite true for me also...

because it is one of biblical revelations that in later times, many will abandon Him... and the ungodly and the anti-Christs to be punished in hell eternally are as many as the sand of the sea.

If I understand the question, I'm gonna go for a tie between the egypitian gods and the Japanese/Chinese gods. But, I think the ultimate answer to your question would be the Egyptian gods, since that religion was around the longest of those you listed.

Good question.I would have to Cathloic because they are the only religon that did not break apart.Unlike the jews and the christens there are so many kinds of them.
But only one thing of Cathloics.Inleast that is what I was taught.JM

well the catholics broke apart too form Roman Catholics and Protestans and then again after the first Vatikan Concilum they´kind of broke apart a little. I mean Jews always were kind of small so I'd say Christians (including atholics and Protestants) so not hte trinity cause only some belive in that or maybe Hinduist but I don't know how many people lived there over the years.
If you are just talking about a god you have to say that the Muslim, Jewish and Christian god is pretty much the same just different people writing about him so what we today call God or Allah or Jahwe was probably worshipped the most.

I would have to Cathloic because they are the only religon that did not break apart.Unlike the jews and the christens there are so many kinds of them.
ehhhhh catholics are chrisitans and protestants are a branch of the chrisitians that broke away from the catholics. So catholics very much did break apart during the reformation

exactly what I said dude, why do the atheist know more about the shit of the christians they than themselves do?