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Major World Religions
Name the twelve major world religions, along with the major branches of the four largest.
Estimated adherent numbers mostly gathered from adherents.com.
For the sake of tradition, I've split "Chinese religion" into two
(apportioning its followers semi-arbitrarily among them; in reality, most followers follow both).
(apportioning its followers semi-arbitrarily among them; in reality, most followers follow both).
I've also egregiously combined the Japanese religions, treated Juche as a brand of communism, treated Spiritism as indigenous, and ignored Cao Dai.
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Also it's quite easy to write prophecies with 250% accuracy if the part of the story where those prophecies come true is written after the part of the story where the prophecies are made.
All geological records can be easily proven by the Biblical Flood.
Also, the Bible is extremely accurate. There are different scrolls dating to many different times. Also, there are different authors, with different messages, approaches and writing styles, yet in all of the Books of the Bible, prophecies were made or fufilled.
Also, why would the Bible be a fluke? Jesus' disciples all died for their beliefs - and wouldn't have, unless they genuinely believed it happened. It can't be a well-thought out lie.
I guess there's no evidence if you decide to ignore all of it.
If the Bible didn't exist, nobody would claim the Earth is six thousand years old, because the evidence points to it being much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much older.
Also, we can't know if all of Jesus' disciples gave their lives for the faith, but we know not all of them did. (John)
@Kalbahamut
Polyester didn't exist whenever the Torah was written, and Jonah was said (in the satirical Book of Jonah) to have been in the belly of the great fish for three days, not weeks.
The first 3/4 of my above comment lists things that are contained in the Bible that most Christians don't believe. But they are there in black and white.
We as Christians can eat lobster, as it was ONCE unclean for the Israelites to eat, but in the New Testament, Peter had a vision where God told him to eat the 'unclean' animals, giving him permission to.
The reason why God had many of those rules was to keep them safe (lobsters eat sand, so it can be dangerous - and animals such as snakes, bats and pangolins may carry disease). Those rules weren't to make people miserable, but to help them.
Also, the punishment of everything in not to be put to death. Back then, when you ate an 'unclean' animal, you needed to sanctify yourself.
*And on a side-note, the Bible doesn't mention 'polyester', so it isn't 'black and white'
Anyway, I agree that a lot of dietary laws aren't too bad compared to other stuff, and that Kalbahamut is wrong for saying that you are put to death for doing all of those things, as it is only a few of them, as well as the fact that polyester didn't exist, so it probably wasn't on the authors' minds.
But that's not true. Your assuming that Christians assume that it's literal. Because we don't. That's why we don't think the Earth stands on pillars, and that hell is directly above the land. And with that assumption, you're assuming that us Christians are only picking out parts we like. That's not right to assume things like that, one assumption leading to another, going into the exact wrong way. No Christian takes the Psalms literally, but they read it as praise, prayer or reflection.
Which also proves that we don't only read it, and also study it (seriously, churches have something called 'Bible Study' for a reason.
Your arguments are way to inaccurate and generalised.
The 10 Commandments, basis for Western morality
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And I feel extremely sorry for anyone who is thankful they are atheist. You poor, poor people. You have no idea what you are missing out on. And if you don't believe in miracles, life must be terrifying and horribly inexplicable for you.
As to life being inexplicable... no... actually... life is quite explicable if you believe in reality. Everything makes sense when you accept the truth. If you believe in a lie that renders life inexplicable, THEN you need to insert miracles and mystery into your understanding in order to make sense of things. I've been on both sides of this.
I've been the guy desperately trying to figure out why bad things happen to good people, why the supposedly divinely inspired book I'm supposed to believe in is so rife with contradictions and barbarity, why prayers go unanswered, why evil exists, etc etc, finding some small solace in flimsy old memes like "god has a plan" and "his ways are higher than ours" but still never feeling quite satisfied.
And guess what? Many Christians were former Athiests! And former-Buddhists, former-hindus, former-Muslims, former.... the list goes on.
I've also been the guy who, after decades of believing something sincerely and passionately, was able to examine his own beliefs, consider the criticism of others, weigh all the evidence and admit that he was wrong. The guy who was able to take a step back, look at the things he believed before, consider an alternate explanation, and, even though it was painful, admit that the alternative made much much more sense. And, after doing all this, the guy who is able to say with authority that the world is *much* more explicable now than it was before, everything makes sense, because I'm not trying to make up excuses to account for my belief in nonsense.
Have you been that guy? Or are you the guy who has believed the same thing his whole life and then condescends to others about belief and what they're missing out on?
Why not take an interest in these things and actually try to figure out or research why they happen instead of blindly accepting what an ancient book tells you? (an ancient book which religious people seem to keep forgetting was written by humans with an agenda a long time ago when we did not know as much about how the universe works, and which has since been translated many times by other humans who all had their own biases, opinions and interpretations)
Polyester is not forbidden, but rather a garment whose fabric is made from wool and linen mixed together.
Slavery as what happened in past several hundred years would never be okay according to the Torah. The slavery that was in the Torah had to with monetary debts and it was not for life and there were very strict rules on how the person was to be treated. One such rule is that if there is only one good bed that bed must go to slave.
As for a death penalty it was for very specific crimes and for that punishment to given out all the judges had to agree not a majority rule and all the judges had to be of impeccable moral judgment.
Do not use christianity and their bible as a basis to make judgements on everyone else. Please take time to at least attempt to educate yourself first.
I also didn't mean that the *only* reason people are atheists is because they know a lot about religion. But... unless they were raised somewhere where they were not exposed to religion and are simply ignorant about it (like China, maybe), or unless they are the kind of person who has just never given it much thought (and there are millions of people like that, sure, and probably more in Europe where gandalf is from than in most places), I'd wager that most atheists at least know *something* about religion... even if that something is something as simple as "there's no good evidence that a god exists," or "my religious family members come across as kind of ignorant jerks and they seem to use their faith to justify this," or even just "church is boring"... and that this contributes to their belief
Also, if you accept the name of an adherent for all other religions (i.e. you take Christian for Christianity, Sunni for "Sunnism", Hindu for Hinduism etc), then you ought to accept Shiia I think. I got it but had to fiddle for a second.
Also, "Shintoism (etc.)"? Etc?
Also, I'm really surprised that so many people still follow Zoroastrianism
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We know that Jesus was crucified, and some mysterious circumstances happened soon after.
Mythology is completely story-based and made up to explain natural phenomena or features, while Jesus' resurrection is a central religious claim that was believed by the religion's founders, who experienced something that made them believe this.