So I have grown tired of all of the arguments over religion. Everyone is always saying that they are right and that they have the oldest truest religion. Well, I got bored and started researching this claim of oldest religion. It showed some interesting things. The oldest written religion is Hinduism, at about 50,000 years old, even though it isn't really a religion but more of a spiritual tradition. Judaism and Christianity are both Abrahamic religions, which dates back to about 1800BC. There was a recent discovery in Botswana, Africa where archeologist have discovered a religious site that dates about 70,000 years old where they worshiped the Python. The oldest religion can easily be assumed to be Animism, which has been seen in many religions and truly predates all of them, in which everything has a spirit including animals, trees, water, and the earth itself.

Then there is the concept of which good is oldest. in Hinduism, Rama is said to of appeared over a million years ago. Then Krishna, God himself to the Vedic scriptures appeared about 5000 years ago, Buddha around 500 BC, and Christ about 2000 years ago. And then there is the Egyptian religion, which goes back to about 3000BCE. In Which Horus, son of god, was murdered and raised again. Horus is truly the first telling of the story that Christians believe. I wonder what most of them would think if they learned they are following a story that was taken from a religion that their own has considered false. Hell, most stories and Holidays that the Christian religion uses were taken from other religions in an attempt to pull the "pagans" into the christian belief. Like Christmas, where they say they celebrate the birth of Christ. The original holiday as far as I could read was yule in December. Science shows that Christ was born more late July or early August. There was a saint that was born in December, And he has become known as Santa, Saint Nicholas was his name, and he was born in 270 AD.

To be honest, I doubt any of the religions that people follow today are the one true religion. We have probably lost it because it existed before written language. Who knows what our ancestors believed in. Hell, who even knows when they came up with religion. I mean they had to exist and live up to the point where they would have to become concerned with what happens after they die and all that fun jazz that causes people to turn to religion. Religion is what people turn to when they have their fears and need that little boost, sometimes that big boost, that their faith provides them.

Now for the closing. I am not writing this to bash any religion or even promote one. I am simply writing about well documented facts that nobody seems to bother looking up. If i had to choose a religion I would say none. Man created religion, and that is all there is to it in my opinion.

There's an interesting concept for you. The one true maker of everything, creator of man and everything this world has become and even the creator of god himself, is just man. We create or Destines and shape this world and our lives. So live your life knowing that you yourself are in charge of how this world exists and how it will end.