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Southern populations celebrated tribal beliefs, such as animism and shamanism. These societies were less technologically advanced, so people from the developed nations saw them as barbaric and backwards. This prejudice extended towards their religious beliefs. As a result, their religions were rarely if ever taken seriously and people outside their cultures did not adopt them. Colonialism didn't help matters much either.
Those do not count for me as they are offsprings of one of the major religions.The Americas have seen religions too... Mormonism was founded in the United States, and many New Religious Movements have been founded in the United States.
It also doesn't hurt that the strongest and earliest civilizations originated in the East.
Taoism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i Faith - none of these originated in the West, the South, or the North.
Is there any scientific theory to axplain why all major religions come form the East?
Those do not count for me as they are offsprings of one of the major religions.
The question is: Why did such refined philosophies not develope elswhere?
I'm not absolutely sure, but my impression is that the pagan traditions of, as an example, the Romans or Greeks are far less complex than those of the Egyptians or Hindus and mainly concerned with earthly matters.
Taoism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i Faith - none of these originated in the West, the South, or the North.
Actually, we do have time periods in which there are booms in religion. I forget the term that is used for this period of time, but it was around 500 B.C.E.What a wonderful question!.....Frubals to you!
Here's another question to go with it- Why do none of these religions arise in the same time frame? Why, in ten thousand years of recorded history, do we never get a Jesus and Mohamed in the same period?...Or a Krishna and a Moses in the same time frame?
In every other field of human endevour we get great writers, philosophers, scientists and artists in pairs and clusters throughout history.
Taoism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i Faith - none of these originated in the West, the South, or the North.
Is there any scientific theory to axplain why all major religions come form the East?
Actually, we do have time periods in which there are booms in religion. I forget the term that is used for this period of time, but it was around 500 B.C.E.
Scientific theory, maybe not so much, but you need look no further than to your history books to find out why.
Christianity, which you list as an eastern religion, was at the right place at the right time to rise into a position of prominence. Roman emperor Constantine tired of the divisiveness that thrived in his empire. He wanted to put all the eggs in one basket. So he looked at the religions that flourished in his empire and found Christianity had much of what he wanted. It simplified things (fewer gods), offered a history that showed rulers often had god's attention and it came with a nice "do this, don't do this" list. Not to mention "give unto Caesar..." which meant him. So he made it the official "state sponsored" religion. Got various religious leaders together and figured out which books should go into the collection and which ones shouldn't (council of Nicaea). After that, with religious leaders who five minutes ago were on the down-trodden and repressed list now members of the up-and-comers group backing his play, it was back to running and empire... a Roman empire. So that means crush your enemies (some of the bloodiest days in the arenas was after the conversion) if they don't capitulate. The new and improved Romanized version of Christianity fell right in step with the empire building methods that had so successfully worked for the empire in the past. So religions that they ran into (Teutonic/Celtic/whoever) converted, subverted (minor players could receive the backing of the church if they converted and helped to convert others), or where crushed. This also occurred in the "new world" as well. So the main answer to your question of "why all major religions come form the East?" is that they were fairly successfully suppressed/repressed/exterminated elsewhere where (generally) less well organized resistance was met.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!...........I love it!
This is the religion we will crucify the leader thereof. This is the religion we will ban.
This is the religion we will hound and persecute. This is the religion we will round up and feed to the lions. This is the religion we will consistantly tell our people is evil and opposed to the State........
As leader of the State I desire a new "eggs in one basket" religion so I will pick the one the State has been running deadly propoganda/persecution against for decades.
...It's simple and comes with nice "do this, don't do this" rules and the people will therefore not be shocked, outraged and up in arms when I dispose of their ancestoral gods in favor of the religion we said was part of the axis of evil.
Not really. He saw a group he could help and could help him. He was exposed to Christianity by his mother so he knew enough of it in theory and practice to get the whole "sheep need a shepherd" thing. He was smart. Smart enough to see what wasn't working and what could... for him. He understood the symbolism that could be used and the power that that could bring. That was why he had the first "official" Bibles put together and limited the churches that they where in to help those priests coalesce their influence in order to expand his own. It was all very feudal after all and help set up the manner in which the Catholic church would run things for millennia afterwards.Alternative historical reading- The writing was already on the wall. Despite the prolonged and determined persecution of Christianity by the State it was still spreading and spreading fast. Romans, in increasingly greater numbers, chose to abandon the old gods and embrace Christianity.
Constantine, like any astute politician/leader capable of rising to the status of emperor of Rome, saw which way the wind was blowing and went, at considerable risk and against the powers that be, with the will of the people.
Because the west was too cold. :cold: :flower2:why all major religions come form the East?
Taoism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i Faith - none of these originated in the West, the South, or the North.
Is there any scientific theory to axplain why all major religions come form the East?