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Nothing has ever emerged
spontaneously in human culture from a vacuum.
A religion has never suddenly appeared
and been accepted by any large number of people.
All religions start from an older
religion which is
transformed in
an attempt to better fit the current conceptual
understanding of the collective.
The
Hebrew religion was built upon
the beliefs of the Egyptian Pharaoh
Akhenaten as well as myths of
Sumerians,
Babylonians and
Canaanites.
Christianity was built by a synthesis
of local religions and
Mystery schools.
Islam is built upon the
Christian and Hebrew religions and
Arabic tradition.
Vedic Sanskrit, a
classical language of India, is the liturgical language of
Hinduism,
Buddhism,
Sikhism, and
Jainism.
An example of a modern
religion that has transfigured Christianity to fit its
Septuagint precepts is
Mormonism.
A new
testament appeared, the book of Mormon
- a rewritten New and Old Testament, and monogamist
Christians were converted
into polygamists.
To Catholic, Protestant and
Rastafari the book of Mormon appears as a fictional account of the
Adventures of Jesus,
the Holy Spirit and
the
Father.
To Mormons the book of Mormon is the 'Word of God' written down by Joseph Smith
when possessed by what he
identified as the Holy Spirit.
The individuals that first accepted
Mormonism were nominally monogamist Christians before they became converted
gung-ho Mormon polygamists.
Abrahamic religions,
narrative religions, are "book" based religions.
A religion
founded upon a mixture of Christian and
Hebrew literature is the
Elchasaites based upon the book of Elchasai.
This literature gave rise
to cenobitic monasticism precipitated by the Desert Fathers - hermits,
ascetics and monks - who lived
mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, around the third century.
Concepts
espoused within cenobitic monasticism eventually give rise to the Discalced
Carmelites founded on the writings of
Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y
Ahumada (St. Teresa of Ávila) and
Juan de Yepes Alvarez (St.
John of the Cross) in 1593.
325 Anno Domini
Although Christianity has two main branches they both use basically the
same testament that was decided upon by the
Council of Nicaea.
Protestants take the early Christian writings the Catholics claim are
not heretical and accept them
wholeheartedly.
Protestants never stop to ask the
question of whether the 66
books contained in the Bible tell
the whole story or whether they
have been edited, corrected, redacted,
combined, added to, re-edited, re-corrected.
The
difference between main stream religion and "cults" is basically the degree of
acceptance by the culture in which the religion exists.
All
aforementioned religions have come from already existing
popularly accepted
religion and that is why they have large numbers of adherents.
Religious "cults" that
are not based upon existing religious traditions typically do not survive
through more than one or two generations.
Religious "cults" based
upon existing religious traditions that pratice celibacy, like the Shakers, do
not survive through generations either.
Joseph Smith chose sex over
celibacy and populated a desert.
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