This is where you’ll learn all kinds of history pertaining to organized religion. It’s important to know where we came from so we can learn from that and not make the same mistakes again.
Also you can see that the christian, jewish and muslim faiths were all created, and not really all that long ago.
Here is a chart that shows when and where world religions were created. I find this helpful because it shows that they were all created over time, and implied in this is that they were created by men.
This chart is interesting because obviously a lot of religions and religions-turned-myth are not on here. Also interesting is the fact that most of these are still being practiced. Though this chart doesn’t show it, it seems that since the dawn of man, there has always been a yearning to understand the mysterious, and to name and personify it in some way by creating gods and stories.
And yet, most scientists and great thinkers, the great minds, are and have been atheists, agnostics or deists.
When and Where World Religions Began
| 4000–2500 BCE | Hinduism | South Asia |
| 1300–1200 BCE | Judaism | West Asia |
| 500–400 BCE | Buddhism | South Asia |
| Confucianism | China | |
| Zoroastrianism | West Asia | |
| Jainism | South Asia | |
| 400–221 BCE | Taoism | China |
| 1st century CE | Christianity | West Asia, Europe |
| 3rd century CE | Manichaeism | West Asia |
| 6th century CE | Shinto | Japan |
| 7th century CE | Islam | West Asia |
| 11th century | Orthodoxy | West Asia |
| 15th–16th century | Sikhism | South Asia |
| 16th century | Protestantism | Europe |
| 19th century | Latter-day Saints | North America |
| Babi and Baha’i | West Asia | |
| 19th–20th century | Pentecostalism | North America |
This chart is on page 1555 of The Encyclopedia of World History, volume IV.
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