Why most religions were born in the middle east or india

[bhsoda_destroyer]

Middle east - Christianit, islam, Judaism

India- hinduism, Buddhism, jainism

 

[Twinnem]

Those were the population centers of the times

 

[zyg0s1]

we were chosen by god

 

[Went2Jupiter]

Middle east - Christianit, islam, Judaism

India- hinduism, Buddhism, jainism

Is there an answer? Or were you just asking

 

[Went2Jupiter]

Those were the population centers of the times

A user with an actual brain this is bliss

 

[P.Siddy]

because jbe is law

 

[AbandonShip]

 

[bhsoda_destroyer]

Is there an answer? Or were you just asking

Just asking

 

[Hess]

Because the religions expanded outside of their origin zone

 

[Went2Jupiter]

Just asking

Its mainly because they were the powerhouses of the world back when the major religions originated

 

[ProBono]

because civilisation started in the euphrates and spread outward, that applies to everything not just religion, and only really stopped applying once these other regions (europe, east asia) became their own centers of civilisation

 

[greycel]

because civilisation started in the euphrates and spread outward, that applies to everything not just religion, and only really stopped applying once these other regions (europe, east asia) became their own centers of civilisation

Indic civilisation developed independently to the Mesopotamian
It predates it by millenia too

 

[ProBono]

Indic civilisation developed independently to the Mesopotamian

no civilisation developed independently to the Mesopotamian except those of Mesoamerica, which are linked by the ice age migrations, concurrently yes but organised civilisation largely started and spread out from there

It predates it by millenia too

Im not interested in this we wuz kangz pseudoscience shitskin dick measuring contest

 

[ØUROBOROS]

because civilisation started in the euphrates and spread outward, that applies to everything not just religion

W Mesopotamia love that place

 

[ProBono]

W Mesopotamia love that place

I miss the ziggurat fr

 

[ØUROBOROS]

I miss the ziggurat fr

I really need to go there one day but I do horrible with long car rides

 

[SecularIslamist]

Other parts of the world did have religions but they were so lame like Norse Religion, Tengrisim or animistic religions in Africa.

The thing about those religons you names (except judiasm) is that they have a universal appeal, a transcendent and/or a very appealing theology. They don't constrain themselves to their own ethnic or racial fetishism or superiority / exclusivism.

In fact many see a perennial truth between all of these religions. This is why you have mish-mash syncretism and cults that borrow from all of them.

 

[greycel]

no civilisation developed independently to the Mesopotamian except those of Mesoamerica, which are linked by the ice age migrations, concurrently yes but organised civilisation largely started and spread out from there

I mean look it up, there were 6
And organised civilisation started thousands of years after ice age

 

[greycel]

Other parts of the world did have religions but they were so lame like Norse Religion, Tengrisim or animistic religions in Africa.

The thing about those religons you names (except judiasm) is that they have a universal appeal, a transcendent and/or a very appealing theology. They don't constrain themselves to their own ethnic or racial fetishism or superiority / exclusivism.

In fact many see a perennial truth between all of these religions. This is why you have mish-mash syncretism and cults that borrow from all of them.

How can somebody agree to the literal interpretations that most Abrahmic faiths currently purport, knowing the nature of experiences shared by Saints (from "rivalling" faiths) that point towards Oneness and the history of religious beliefs (earliest animism/shamanic) supporting the mechanics of Nondual Mysticicm... e.g. awareness shifts from taking shrooms

Zoroastrianism influenced all these Abrahamic faiths.

The Zoroastrian priests that came centureis after their prophet, were the ones who changed the original Zoroaster's Cosmic Monism to Cosmic dualism because they wanted to gatekeep "the Good" to the elite factions, but doing so they opened the doors for Evil to have a chance of being equal to Good. Evil is not real at all. It is an unreal perspective created from unreal Ego

Intuitively you can understand it too.
To ensure that the society 2000 years follows rules and acts in order, they must be able to relate to what happens. From there you get literal concepts that are of the physical material nature, that they can relate to.
You get Heaven or Hell (bred from dualism) / Linear Time (opposed to cyclical) / etc.
Much easier to control populations rather than telling somebody about states of consciousness or transmigration.
Everything was changed to be taken literally, as means for political control

So now we have billions of people around the world acting from fear because of Catholic and Sunni and other Dualistic belief systems, rather than realising their faith in Love, from grace.

The biggest tipping point should be just look at the e,lit3s. They practice Jwsh Mysticism and other systems that come from Hermeticism.

 

[Junbae]

it's not like they were the only ones, every other region had their own pagan religions. it's just that middle eastern and asian religions became more widespread while the others died out.

 

[Rudeus Dues]

I miss the ziggurat fr

Niggurat

 

[SecularIslamist]

How can somebody agree to the literal interpretations that most Abrahmic faiths currently purport, knowing the nature of experiences shared by Saints (from "rivalling" faiths) that point towards Oneness and the history of religious beliefs (earliest animism/shamanic) supporting the mechanics of Nondual Mysticicm... e.g. awareness shifts from taking shrooms

Zoroastrianism influenced all these Abrahamic faiths.

The Zoroastrian priests that came centureis after their prophet, were the ones who changed the original Zoroaster's Cosmic Monism to Cosmic dualism because they wanted to gatekeep "the Good" to the elite factions, but doing so they opened the doors for Evil to have a chance of being equal to Good. Evil is not real at all. It is an unreal perspective created from unreal Ego

Intuitively you can understand it too.
To ensure that the society 2000 years follows rules and acts in order, they must be able to relate to what happens. From there you get literal concepts that are of the physical material nature, that they can relate to.
You get Heaven or Hell (bred from dualism) / Linear Time (opposed to cyclical) / etc.
Much easier to control populations rather than telling somebody about states of consciousness or transmigration.
Everything was changed to be taken literally, as means for political control

So now we have billions of people around the world acting from fear because of Catholic and Sunni and other Dualistic belief systems, rather than realising their faith in Love, from grace.

The biggest tipping point should be just look at the e,lit3s. They practice Jwsh Mysticism and other systems that come from Hermeticism.

Not Islam. Ofc you may think otherwise and I'm aware lots of orientalist scholars of Islam like to say so. But the purpose of Islam was to retire what was lost, and start with a clean break that frees it from the corruption of other religions that's why it came from a "backwards" desert and illeterate person. That's why it's the FINAL MESSAGE and closes the door on anything coming after it - hence why it's schisms like shia that developed aftereards. That speaks volumes and separates it from other religions.

Simply stating their are similarities in theological concepts like good/evil, heaven or hell doesn't mean anything. It's very clear to Islam these are periods of jahilliya when humankind was not mature enough. We are now in a secular stage where man is the measure of all things and these things no longer matter to most people...

 

[greycel]

Not Islam. Ofc you may think otherwise and I'm aware lots of orientalist scholars of Islam like to say so. But the purpose of Islam was to retire what was lost, and start with a clean break that frees it from the corruption of other religions that's why it came from a "backwards" desert and illeterate person. That's why it's the FINAL MESSAGE and closes the door on anything coming after it - hence why it's schisms like shia that developed aftereards. That speaks volumes and separates it from other religions.

Simply stating their are similarities in theological concepts like good/evil, heaven or hell doesn't mean anything. It's very clear to Islam these are periods of jahilliya when humankind was not mature enough. We are now in a secular stage where man is the measure of all things and these things no longer matter to most people...

Dude there are many ways up the same mountain
Because there have been individuals across ALL faiths that have found the Universal Truth.
You might not agree with me and that's fine. I do commend your loyalty

I'm just saying stay in your faith, but extend your interpretation of Islam away from literal and into mystical.
Look especially into Sufism

A good start is Rumi

 

[SecularIslamist]

Dude there are many ways up the same mountain
Because there have been individuals across ALL faiths that have found the Universal Truth.
You might not agree with me and that's fine. I do commend your loyalty

I'm just saying stay in your faith, but extend your interpretation of Islam away from literal and into mystical.
Look especially into Sufism

A good start is Rumi

Im aware of Rumi. It's the only reason I visited Konya a couple years ago lmao. I used to be Mevlanamaxxed but less so now but I'm not a literalist or salafi in anyway shape or form. I'm just a normal Muzzie but just act extreme on here for lulz.

Islam accepts other religions have their ways too and judgement with god. It even says God sent them prophets but it was later corrupted. I don't believe in the perennialism that all paths point towards the same universal truth because ofc in Islam that's the only way to the truth but I acknowledge others may set upon a similar path but end up somewhere else. That's why (some Muslims) consider Buddha, Zoroaster and even guys like Aristotle and Socrates Muslim obviously the Qur'an doesn't specify them but that hasn't stopped Muslim scholars saying they actually were lol.