The World Religion Tree is just too cool. Thanks for posting. I'd love to get it into a printable version somehow.
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Amen!! It's the only way that I'm able to see peace in this world.This universalist understanding of religion is so very much needed today.
Ah, I know what you're talking aboutThe religions of the world map. it's the one with all the circles.
I'm glad to know the charts blessed you and hoping that they do come in handy for the future. I do wish they had smaller versions of the charts as wellThe World Religion Tree is just too cool. Thanks for posting. I'd love to get it into a printable version somehow.
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A lot of aspects with the universalist perspective on things also connect with the way that religions have universal stories. The Flood, for example, is one of the greatest ones that comes to my mind - and on the issue, there was an excellent documentary on the issue with regards to India as seen here:This universalist understanding of religion is so very much needed today.
For anyone interested,
Came across this excellent presentation that really stood out to me called The Christ Connection: How the World Religions Prepared the Way for the Phenomenon of Jesus
For anyone interested,
Came across this excellent presentation that really stood out to me called The Christ Connection: How the World Religions Prepared the Way for the Phenomenon of Jesus
It works for others afterward as well in regards to religions either deeply impacted by the development of Christianity/Followers of the Way or Religions that ended up morphing around Christ. It was never one-sided.Only works, of course, for religions that proceed Christianity.
it's interesting examining the Abrahamic faith (beginning in Genesis 12 and Genesis 11 - continued from Genesis 4 from the era where men around the world simply called on the name of the Lord universally - global consciousness of Theism and belief in One God as the way) t....that is the root of many of the world religions and what sprung from them in their own spheres.
Flood myths are anything but homogenic, by the way, even though they are similarly common as the "World Egg". Apart from the depth-psychology of water symbolism, flooding was a threat that most agriculturalists knew only too well - and it's possible these myths also contain some faint memory of what happened when the last ice age came to an end.
More likely it was a memory of the one of the large floods which afflicted Mesopotamia. It seems to me that both the story of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel are mythologizations of the Agricultural Revolution. The Near East must have seemed like a paradise until the Younger Dryas event which required people to take up agriculture or die. The Cain and Abel story is the classical tale of conflict between settled peoples and herders. It is telling that Cain does not wander like he is told, but rather founds the first city. Civilization is thus founded in sin according to the Bible, and herders seen as much more virtuous.
Came across this excellent map on the issue of world religions. It is in the form of a tree that shows the intersections of nearly every major religion in the world/their respective off-shoots. With the tree, the roots of the tree are automatically going to far back into time - the farthest we can go being based on how much we're aware of - many speculating that world religions really started to begin in the era of Noah after the Flood and the Tower of Babel (from which Nimrod arose to change the shape of the world after establishing Babylon alongside the worship of Ishtar and others - with his system of worship impacting the worship given before the Lord even into the time of Abraham).
Of course, we'll only be able to see once we're in heaven the full scope of history. Till then, we can know for certain that religions have always intersected - and for myself, being a believer in God/Christ, my view is that those following the Lord are impacted at every turn when it comes to the history of God's people....
In addition to that, for anyone from a theistic perspective wanting to have a basis for knowing how and where things may have merged, it's interesting examining the Abrahamic faith (beginning in Genesis 12 and Genesis 11 - continued from Genesis 4 from the era where men around the world simply called on the name of the Lord universally - global consciousness of Theism and belief in One God as the way) t....that is the root of many of the world religions and what sprung from them in their own spheres.
I would say some aspects of it can be improved on more fully if considering how things need a lot more development ...This is a bit weird. Why is Islam under Persian mythology instead of Semitic? Everything it might have gotten from Zoroastrianism came via Christianity or Judaism.
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