The Main Religions (table)
All the 10,000+ religions and their counterweight the Atheism practiced today are based on quest to know our purpose, the past, the future, the right and the wrong. We are not the only ones on earth to understand what is right and what is wrong - most species in the animal kingdom understand this concept perfectly well.
We learned long time ago that brute force will always be encountered by a brute force to be recognized. We seem to forget this simple truth: if you take a sword in your hand you will fall by a sword - no known exceptions! Today all stable societies stand on three equally strong delicately balanced feet: 1) religion/atheism, 2) political system with a "template" for most everything that this society needs, and 3) strong defense capability. Change anything and the society will suffer.
From the 6.8 billion people about 1 billion does not believe in any of the religions with everlasting life for the soul but still they practice the fairness that is often even on the higher level than practiced by the religious groups around them. Does this really make them worse than the so called believers that often are totally intolerant towards those who do not act like them? Absolutely not, these others are the power brokers and piece makers that the society must call from time to time to stop the religious fanatics from aiding the destruction of parts of it by unnecessary hostilities and major wars. Throughout the known human history our rulers have always used and abused religions to rally the people to protect the nation and to enforce their own expansionist policies and plans to secure their power base regardless how much it will cost in life and property.
The five largest religious/ non-religious groups today are:
| 1. Christianity *) | 2,100 million members |
| 2. Islam | 1,800 million members |
| 3. Hinduism | 1,000 million members |
| 4. Atheism (Everything Non-Religious) | 850 million members |
| 5. Buddhism | 500 million members |
*) Christianity was born at 33 AD when the Jewish Rabbis in Jerusalem coerced the Roman Empire to execute an innocent and deeply religious and righteous man, called Jesus from Nazareth, the Christ, the Son of God. The Rabbis labeled him to Rome as a rebel King planning to raise an army against the Roman Rule and even Empire. For power of the Rabbis this man was too dangerous while seemingly uneducated he knew the Jewish scriptures better than any of them and took any challenge they threw to him. He then explained all the scriptures the way that they made sense to the man on the street. They just needed to get him silenced one way or the other but dared not to touch him either. Rome would never tolerate a rebellion and accusing this man from working to that goal meant his crucifixion. This meant division of Judaism and the birth of Christianity, leaving the Jews waiting for their promised King and God. About 300 years later the Roman Emperor Constantine realized that to unite the Roman Empire properly he needed to replace the old Roman Gods with the Christian one God religion. By this time Christianity was growing fast in the shadows of the Empire making the Emperors work easy. He directed the consolidation of the Christian faith and adoption of it's "pagan" Trinity Doctrine to become the basic pillar in the Christianity and the Catholic Church in Rome. In 325 AD, he called more than 250 Bishops to work in Nice, Asia Minor, to adopt the Holy Trinity: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. Those who disagreed were exiled and "disappeared". He then directs the compilation of the early version of the present day Bible from various apostolic and other scriptures that were available in the Roman Emperor's domain or were presented to him. Judaism lost it's appeal in Levant and most Jews moved away from their lands in Palestine to uncertain future in faraway lands. This religion did not die and it's come back started around 7th century A.D. The change came unexpected when the Hazards from Northern Caucasus between the Caspian and Black Sees realized that they must replace their national phallic worship to survive as a Nation or people between the front lines of two monotheistic competing religions of Islam and Christianity. The Christians threatened them from the North and the Muslims were approaching them from the South. Today their descendants Jews or rather Zionists add up to about 13 million people scattered around the World with their largest population center outside Levant is in the USA. About 10% of them trace their origins to the Mediterranean Middle East while 90% are descendants of the Hazards and Jews from Caucasus and the Russian plains. Hazards realized that a competitive religion would unite them as a Nation of Khazar peoples and with this change they would avoid of being absorbed by the Christians and/or Muslims and would lose their identity. Judaism was a practical solution as it was close to both Islam and Christianity but different enough to give them a National identity anywhere they would be living. This ability to resists against absorption by other Nations was achieved by specific rules and rites that enforced solidarity between the people, and the survival of identity was proven already inside the Holy Roman Empire. It also helped them to be small in numbers as no Nation felt threatened by these hard working Jews living inside their borders. However, this unity bordering communism gave them formely unseen excessive political power expanding far beyond their numbers as individuals. A united (conspired) vote in a democracy can change anything given enough time to "convert" elected officers in sufficient numbers to favor "impossible" when inside the ruling chambers. Also by inviting Jews to bring Judaism to the Khazaria the leadership had to immerse the Rabbis to their internal power games, intrigues, and conspiracies to make the new religion accepted in it's new home. With this the advisory role of Jews expanded soon beyond the politics to include all the financial endeavors of the Hazards in their role as mercenaries and power brokers between thy tribes and communities. This gave the Jews power, allies, connections and wealth. They took this all to Europe where their leadership acted in the same capacity supported now by their blood ties to Hazards In the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars the Jews hiding even the wealth of some European Kinds cornered the British stock markets and and with that coup they gained the power over the all British industry. They then demanded and got the keys to the bank of England (lasted until Winston Churchill nationalized the bank after the WW II). A century later (1913) they were granted the control of the newly established Federal Reserve bank of the USA or FED and with this new power in their hands they continued mingling with the European affairs including deceptive practices during and after the WW I and WW II. In 1946 they received permission from the UN to establish the Sate of Israel on Palestinian lands in Levant within agreed upon boundaries dictated by the Allied forces. This meant that the Zionists had gone around and had now the right to a peace of their ancestors land in Levant and with that they were again a Nation of their own. "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." -Harry S. Truman Our current financial chaos was not an accident. With that we end up writing a new chapter to the human history proving that the ancient saying is still true: if you take a sword to your hand you will fall by a sword. See also the enclosed presentation of the history of religions. |
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