Tuesday, October 11, 2011

A Small glimpse into the many religions of the world!

Can you give just ONE piece of evidence that God exists? I know you cant.

Science in itself can be considered the "One True Religion"

Here is a small list of all of the religions in the world. Your religion being a tiny spot in this list.
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The following is a partial list of religions and spiritual traditions.

Abrahamic religions

A group of monotheistic traditions sometimes grouped with one another for comparative purposes, because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.

Catholicism

Anglicanism 
Assyrian Church of the East 
Eastern Orthodox Church 
Oriental Orthodox Church 
Roman Catholic Church
Protestantism

Bible Student movement
Christian Universalism
Latter Day Saint movement
Nontrinitarianism
Swedenborgianism
Unitarianism
The Creativity Movement

Gnosticism

Christian Gnosticism

Ebionites
Cerdonians
Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)
Colorbasians
Simonians

Early Gnosticism

Borborites
Cainites
Carpocratians
Ophites
Hermeticism

Medieval Gnosticism

Cathars
Bogomils
Paulicianism
Tondrakians

Persian Gnosticism

Mandaeanism
Manichaeism
Bagnolians

Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

Sethians
Basilidians
Valentinians
Bardesanites
Islam

Kalam Schools

Ash'ari
Kalam
Maturidi
Murji'ah
Mu'tazili

Kharijite

Ibadi (Only surviving sect)
Azraqi
Haruriyya
Sufri

Shia Islam

Ismailism
Mustaali / Bohra
Nizari
Jafari
Twelvers
Akhbari
Shaykhi
Usuli
Alawites
Alevi / Bektashi
Zaidiyyah

Sufism

Bektashi
Chishti
Mevlevi
Mujaddediyah
Naqshbandi
Jahriyya
Khufiyya
Nimatullahi
Tariqah
Quadiriyyah
Sufi Order International
Sufism Reoriented
Suhrawardiyya
Tijani
Universal Sufism
Dances of Universal Peace

Sunni Islam

Hanafi
Berailvi
Deobandi
Gedimu
Yihewani
Xidaotang
Hanbali
Maliki
Shafi'i

Other Islamic Groups

Ahl-e Hadith or Salafi
Ahl-e Haqq or Yarsan
Ahl-e Quran
Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement
Al-Fatiha Foundation
Canadian Muslim Union
Druze
European Islam
Five Percenters
Ittifaq al-Muslimin
Jamaat al-Muslimeen
Jadid
Liberal Muslims
Muslim Canadian Congress
Moorish Science Temple of America
Mahdavia
Nation of Islam
Nuwaubianism
Progressive British Muslims
Progressive Muslim Union
Qur'an Alone
Tolu-e-Islam
United Submitters International
Wahabi
Zikri

Judaism

Rabbinic Judaism

Orthodox Judaism
Haredi Judaism
Hasidic Judaism
Modern Orthodox Judaism
Conservative Judaism
Masorti
Conservadox Judaism
Union for Traditional Judaism
Reform Judaism
Progressive Judaism
Liberal Judaism

Karaite Judaism

Modern Non-Rabbinic Judaism

Alternative Judaism
Humanistic Judaism (not always identified as a religion)
Jewish Renewal
Reconstructionist Judaism

Historical groups

Essenes
Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic Judaism)
Sadducees (possible ancestor of Karaite Judaism)
Zealots
Sicarii

Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet

Ebionites
Elkasites
Nazarenes
Sabbateans
Frankists

Rastafari movement
Main article: Rastafari movement
Mandaeans and Sabians
Main articles: Mandaeism and Sabians

Mandaeism
Sabians
Sabians of Harran
Mandaean Nasaraean Sabeans

Schools of Buddhism

Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
Theravada
Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya
Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya
Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya
Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya
Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Nikaya
Burmese Thudhamma Nikaya
Vipassana tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw and disciples
Burmese Shwekyin Nikaya
Burmese Dvaya Nikaya
Thai Maha Nikaya
Dhammakaya Movement
Thai Thammayut Nikaya
Thai Forest Tradition
Tradition of Ajahn Chah
Mahayana
Humanistic Buddhism
Madhyamaka
Prāsangika
Svatantrika
Sanlun (Three Treatise school)
Sanron
Maha-Madhyamaka (Jonangpa)
Nichiren
Nichiren Shū
Nichiren Shōshū
Nipponzan Myōhōji
Soka Gakkai
Pure Land
Jodo Shu
Jodo Shinshu
Tathagatagarbha
Daśabhūmikā (absorbed into Huayan)
Huayan school (Avataṃsaka)
Hwaeom
Kegon
Tiantai
Tendai
Cheontae
Yogācāra
Cittamatra in Tibet
Wei-Shi (Consciousness-only school) or Faxiang (Dharma-character school)
Beopsang
Hossō
Chan / Zen / Seon / Thien
Caodong
Sōtō
Keizan line
Jakuen line
Giin line
Linji
Rinzai
Ōbaku
Fuke Zen
Won Buddhism: Korean Reformed Buddhism
Kwan Um School of Zen
Sanbo Kyodan
Vajrayana
Shingon Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Bön
Gelukpa
Kagyupa
Dagpo Kagyu
Karma Kagyu
Barom Kagyu
Tsalpa Kagyu
Phagdru Kagyu
Drikung Kagyu
Drukpa Kagyu
Shangpa Kagyu
Nyingmapa
Sakyapa
Jonangpa
New Buddhist movements
Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph)[1]
Diamond Way
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
New Kadampa Tradition[2]
Share International
True Buddha School
Vipassana movement

Din-i-Ilahi

Din-i-Ilahi

Hinduism

Swaminarayan
Shrauta
Lingayatism
Shaivism
Shaktism
Tantrism
Ananda Marga[3]
Smartism
Vaishnavism
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
ISKCON (Hare Krishna)[4]
Hindu reform movements
Arya Samaj[5]
Brahmo Samaj
Hinduism in Indonesia

Major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy

Hindu philosophy

Nyaya
Purva mimamsa
Samkhya
Vaisheshika
Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa)
Advaita Vedanta
Integral Yoga
Vishishtadvaita
Dvaita Vedanta
Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga
Bhakti Yoga
Hatha yoga
Siddha Yoga
Surat Shabd Yoga
Tantric Yoga
Sahaja Yoga

Jainism

Digambara
Bisapanthi[6]
Digambar Terapanth
Taran Panth
Kanji Panth[6]
Gumanapantha[6]
Totapantha[6]
Shvetambara
Svetambar Terapanth
Murtipujaka or Deravasi
Sthanakvasi

Sikhism

Khalsa
Nihang
Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
Sahajdhari Sikh
Ravidasi

Iranian religions

Bábism
Bahá'í Faith
Mandaeism

Manichaeism

Manichaeism

Mazdakism

Mazdakism

Mithraism

Mithraism

Yazdânism

Alevi
Yarsani
Yazidi

Zoroastrianism

Zurvanism

East Asian religions

Neo-Confucianism
New Confucianism
Caodaism
Chinese folk religion
Chondogyo
Falun Gong
Hoa Hao
I-Kuan Tao
Jeung San Do
Mohism
Oomoto
Seicho-No-Ie
Tenrikyo

African diasporic religions
See also: African diasporic religions

African diasporic religions are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. They derive from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa, showing similarities to the Yoruba religion in particular.

Batuque
Candomblé
Dahomey mythology
Haitian mythology
Kumina
Macumba
Mami Wata
Obeah
Oyotunji
Quimbanda
Santería (Lukumi)
Umbanda[7]
Vodou

Indigenous traditional religions
Paganism and Folk religion

Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions".

African
Main article: African traditional religions

West Africa

Akan mythology
Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
Dahomey (Fon) mythology
Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)

Central Africa

Bushongo mythology (Congo)
Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
Lugbara mythology (Congo)

East Africa

Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
Dinka mythology (Sudan)
Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)

Southern Africa

Khoikhoi mythology
Lozi mythology (Zambia)
Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
Zulu mythology (South Africa)

American
Main article: Native American mythology

Abenaki mythology
Anishinaabe
Aztec mythology
Blackfoot mythology
Cherokee mythology
Chickasaw mythology
Choctaw mythology
Creek mythology
Crow mythology
Ghost Dance
Guarani mythology
Haida mythology
Ho-Chunk mythology (aka: Winnebago)
Hopi mythology
Inca mythology
Indian Shaker Church
Inuit mythology
Iroquois mythology
Keetoowah Nighthawk Society
Kuksu
Kwakiutl mythology
Lakota mythology
Leni Lenape mythology
Longhouse religion
Mapuche mythology
Maya mythology
Midewiwin
Miwok
Native American Church
Navajo mythology
Nootka mythology
Ohlone mythology
Olmec mythology
Pomo mythology
Pawnee mythology
Salish mythology
Selk'nam religion
Seneca mythology
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Sun Dance
Tsimshian mythology
Urarina
Ute mythology
Wyandot religion
Zuni mythology

Asian

Bön
Chinese mythology
Japanese mythology
Koshinto
Siberian Shamanism
Tengriism

European

Estonian mythology
Eskimo religion
Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
Hungarian folk religion
Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
Tadibya

Oceania/Pacific

Australian Aboriginal mythology
Austronesian beliefs
Balinese mythology
Javanese beliefs
Melanesian mythology
Micronesian mythology
Modekngei
Nauruan indigenous religion
Philippine mythology
Anito
Gabâ
Kulam
Polynesian mythology
Hawaiian mythology
Maori mythology
Maori religion
Rapa Nui mythology
Moai
Tangata manu

Cargo cults

John Frum
Johnson cult
Prince Philip Movement
Vailala Madness

Historical polytheism
Further information: Prehistoric religion and History of religion
Ancient Near Eastern

Ancient Egyptian religion
Ancient Semitic religions
Mesopotamian mythology
Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
Babylonian and Assyrian religion
Babylonian mythology
Chaldean mythology
Canaanite mythology
Canaanite religion
Hittite mythology
Persian mythology
Sumerian mythology

Indo-European

Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
Historical Vedic religion
Zoroastrianism
Baltic polytheism
Celtic polytheism
Brythonic mythology
Gaelic mythology
Germanic polytheism
Anglo-Saxon religion
Continental Germanic religion
Norse religion
Greek polytheism
Finnish polytheism
Hungarian polytheism
Roman polytheism
Slavic polytheism

Hellenistic

Mystery religions
Eleusinian Mysteries
Mithraism
Orphism
Pythagoreanism
Gallo-Roman religion

New Age, esotericism, mysticism
New Age

Neoshamanism
Reiki

Esotericism and mysticism

Anthroposophy
Christian mysticism
Esoteric Christianity
Hindu mysticism
Tantra
Vaastu Shastra
Martinism
Meher Baba[8]
Rosicrucian
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis[9]
Rosicrucian Fellowship
Sufism
Theosophy
Wicca

Occult and magical
Occultism, Magic (paranormal), and Magick

Ceremonial magic
Enochian magic
Goetic magic
Chaos magick
Hoodoo (Rootwork)
New Orleans Voodoo
Kulam – Filipino witchcraft
National Socialism and Occultism
Pow-wow
Seiðr – Norse sorcery
Thelema
Witchcraft

Left-Hand Path

Demonolatry
Luciferianism
Satanism
Church of Satan
Setianism

New religious movements
Main article: List of new religious movements
Creativity

Creativity (religion)

New Thought

Divine Science
Religious Science
Unity Church
Jewish Science
Seicho-no-Ie

Fictional religions

Church of Euthanasia
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Church of the SubGenius
Iglesia Maradoniana
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Kibology
Landover Baptist Church
Last Thursdayism
Dudeism

Others

Deism
Discordianism
Eckankar
Ethical Culture
Fellowship of Reason
Fourth Way
Humanism
Jediism[10]
Juche
Meher Baba
Naturalistic Pantheism
Pantheism
Scientology
Secular Humanism
Subud
Universal Life Church
Unitarian Universalis

I am highly knowledgeable about this topic.

Why are there so many religions when there is supposed to be "One God"?

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi,
i am atheist myself but just wanted to correct one thing about Hinduism . It's not a religion per se , its a "umbrella term" used for lot of spiritual/religious beliefs held all over Indian subcontinent like polytheism , monotheism , atheism etc .

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