Saturday, September 27, 2008
One of the Adaptions from www.eternalpath.com As we can see Christianity is ranked the first in the world. Christians faith is strong, and God's love is abundant and has reached out to more than 2 billion people. Everyday, new souls are added into the kingdom of God! Amen.The four largest religions by rank of followers.
Christianity - 2 billion - Trinitarian theosophy - Creator God, Son as Truth, Spirit as Helper
Islam - 1 billion - Allah is war-mongering God waging war against impure infidels
Hinduism - 800 million - Polytheist or many Gods
Buddhism - 350 million - No God, only metaphysical energy called Karma. Body is conduit
Second-rank religions (less than 200 million followers)
Taoism - 15 million - Highly influenced by Buddhism, metaphysical Tao
Shinto - 2 million - Many gods called Kami, liked Animism - main goddess is Amaterasu
Jainism - 3 million - Pacifist ideology based on Karma like beliefs
Judaism - 14 million - Jewish Abrahamic faith following God YaHWeH and Talmud.
Sikhism - 20 million - Monotheistic God with Hindu and Muslim elements
Animism - Ancient Paleolithic religion based on Pantheism
New Religions (less than 300 years old, incl. revivals of older faiths) and Syncretic ReligionsBaha'i faith - 6 million - Islam-derived monotheistic
East Asian syncretic religions - 10 million - Mix of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian
Western Neopaganism - 300,000 - New Age Pantheistic nature energy worship
African diaspora syncretic religions - 75 million - Congo/Angolan with Roman Catholic beliefs
Scientology - 200,000 - Narcissistic psychology, not a faith - teaches you are a god
Xenotheism - census not known - alien and UFO cults
Humanist and "Borderline" Religions
Confucianism - 400,000 - Humanist religion
Marxism - 50 million - Humanist religion
Apathetic secularism - Claims religious affiliation but lives for the world system
Libertarian humanism - Russian movement from collapse of the Communist Party
Endangered or extinct religions - Too many to list
Zoroastrianism - 130,000 - Dualistic (two-god) middle-eastern polytheism.
Manichaeanism - 5,000 - Dualistic teaching of Mani that moral conflict creates light
Labels: Listing of Religions
--God Is Good--
9/27/2008 07:06:00 PM
