Religion

Religion has been a part of the human condition since humans began to record it. It is a phenomenon that all human beings share in common and it manifests in many cultural ways indigenous to each group.  Why

Why would all humans have the same thought?  The religious would support the validity of religion by this very fact; that since religion is so pervasive, that its must exist because it is true.

Religion could even be considered the mental bond humans have with each other, though we all have different social conditions and environments, we all have the same mental paradigm that allows us to transcend the current reality. We all have the need to reach our religious goals and it appears to allow humans to have rules that can be justified above the self.

But having religion does not define why it exists.  This paper will attempt to delve into the reason why.

Which religion will rule the world in 2050?

Over the next four decades, Christians will remain the largest religious group, but Islam will grow faster than any other major religion. If current trends continue, by 2050 … The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.Apr 2, 2015

Major religious groups

• Christianity (31.2%)
• Islam (24.1%)
• Irreligion (16%)
• Hinduism (15.1%)
• Buddhism (6.9%)
• Folk religions (5.7%)
• Sikhism (0.3%)
• Judaism (0.2%)

Which religion did Jesus follow?

Of course, Jesus was a Jew. He was born of a Jewish mother, in Galilee, a Jewish part of the world. All of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples, all of them were Jews. He regularly worshipped in Jewish communal worship, what we call synagogues.

They used these variations to create a more reliable molecular clock and found that Adam lived between 120,000 and 156,000 years ago. A comparable analysis of the same men’s mtDNA sequences suggested that Eve lived between 99,000 and 148,000 years ago¹.

Archaeological evidence suggests that God was considered female for the first 200,000 years of human life on earth, even if male-dominated religions sought to displace the matriarchal order.

Marcus Aurelius (161-180 CE)

“Live a good live. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”