Recorded religion started with Judaism. That's a fact.
Judaism, and later Christianity, are not based on cults, they difined religion as far as we know.
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Judaism was the first abrahamic religion, zoroastrian the first monotheistic religion and an earlier ancestrial religion is the absolute first religion ever, mainly dealing with probably people trying to understand death.
I 'difine' you as an idiot.
Please explain the differences, in detail, between a cult and christianity. Thank you.
mitch, it was also trying to understand life (aka the mother goddess, which if u think about it makes a hell of a lot more sense than a male god creating everything, considering the wonder that is pregnancy and childbirth...)
Recorded religion=religion that has been written down.
Therefore, a true religion is one that has been written down.
Therefore, Scientology is a true religion, not a cult.
Druids, First Dynasty Pharaohs, Chinese, Hindus and several others would like a word with you, twit.
Um...this has to be a Poe. There's not one credible source that thinks Judaism is the world's oldest religion. If any major world religion can be considered the oldest, by historical and archaeological standards, it would be Hinduism. This is just sad and pathetic.
Look up the enuma elish and the cult of Osiris and prepare yourself for a shock.
If you're really feeling masochistic, read the collected works of Plato.
Or, ya know, not.
I don't know which religion was recorded first. What would you define as "recorded", btw? What about the cave paintings in France?
Hinduism is, by and large, deemed as the oldest now-known religion. There is very little fact about ideas and worldviews as old as that around any more. Ideas tend to die when people die.
"difined"? Spell-checker is your friend.
One word completely annihilates your argument:
Mesopotamia.
Funny how it was ancient Babylonian tablets with Cuneiform - the first written language - even described the earlier Sumerian religion, eh...?!
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