The Nature of Humans 7 Religion
This essay examines the nature of humans through their religious beliefs.
The type of religion and the percentage of the population of the Earth that practice it are examined.
Conclusions are then drawn
Type and Percentage of Religion
Christian 33.39% (of which Roman Catholic 16.85%, Protestant 6.15%, Orthodox 3.96%, Anglican 1.26%), Islam, Muslim 22.74%, Hindu 13.8%, Buddhist 6.77%, Sikh 0.35%, Jewish 0.22%, Baha'i 0.11%, other religions 10.95%, non-religious 9.66%, atheists 2.01% (2010 est.)
Source: CIA World Factbook 2015
Conclusions
The dominant religious belief on Earth is Christian.
This faith is based on the monotheism of Judeo Christian mythology as is the second largest faith Islam, Muslim.
The Judaism beliefs extend out of the Egyptian and Babylonian society and have been in use since approx. 1230 BC in the western time calendar.
The Christian and Islamic beliefs take the Judaism texts and translate them into local cultural languages.
Therefore the original text meaning is lost outside of the culture and the land that devised it.
The Christian belief has fractured into the Church of Rome, Nestorian Church, Armenian Church, Jacobite Church, Coptic Church, Western Latin and Eastern Greek.
The Western Latin has fractured into Inquisition, Reformation, Inquisition, Roman Catholic, Protestantism, Humanism, Moravian, Lutheran, Calvanist, Presbyterian, Church of England, Baptist, Non-conformist Congregationalists, Methodist, Evangelical, Modern and Anglo- Catholics.
The Eastern Greek tradition has fractured to Constantinople and Orthodox.
Islamic belief dates from 570-632AD and includes Nestorianism along with Judaism as its text origins.
The fictional character; Moses; occurs as the basis for the Judaism, Judeo Christian and Islamic beliefs as a provider of a set of laws on which to construct a society.
In a strict Judaism, Judeo Christian and Islamic society the original religious texts are adhered to as an unchangeable set of laws for current daily life and thought.
The nature of religion is therefore as an ancient social control system that has been transposed through into the current world.
The key nature of all religions is that they perpetuate a low self-belief in humans that necessitates the interaction with an overriding will of a spirit, power, belief, external to the human domain, upon which all matters are dependent. Low self-belief in turn establishes a low level of will and responsibility.
All humans are born without religious belief and are taught the dominating cultural controls of their local society and so without questioning their upbringing perpetuate a social control system.
The impression is then of an Earth where scientific progress and criticism is opposed by 2000 year old religious dogma.
A world with a society struggling to believe in their own abilities and potential and so remove the need for a God.
Ian K Whittaker
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01/06/2015
14/10/2020
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