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In order:

Judaism, Christianity, Islam.

There are of course a few religions older again. The roots of Judaism for example.

the Upanishads came before all of them :)

Isnt Hinduism older than Judaism?

Well...that could be argued in that there were several variations of religous themes that arose at similar times...traditional Native Americans have a pantheon of Gods just like the Greeks, the Romans, the Mayans, Egyptians, Assryians, Sumerians, or Babylonians..our religions are nature-based rather then "physical entities"...for example..while the major diety of my people is Unequa..he is also known as Grandfather Creator, and one other name which is difficult to translate to English...our Gods have maintained animal forms..everything from rabbits to wolves to Elk..as well as trees, water, etc..

What is the oldest..too many factors to give a sastisfactory answer

I'm not entirely sure about this, but what came first? Christianity, Islam or Judaism?

They are in essense branches of the same root religion.

Christianity cam last out of those - It is a spin off of Judaism
I remember hearing that Islam and Judaism were interpretions of an older religion.

As for what the oldest religion is - can't say really. Probably worship of the sun or the rain etc by early man or proto man

All that doesn't matter. He didn't ask if Hinduism is older than Judiasm, or if Uphandiandiandism is older than all the rest.

Christianity cam last out of those - It is a spin off of Judaism
I remember hearing that Islam and Judaism were interpretions of an older religion.

As for what the oldest religion is - can't say really. Probably worship of the sun or the rain etc by early man or proto man
No Islam traces it's roots back before Chrisianity but was founded long after. It's all back to the old testiment and brothers double crossing each other. But Islam is the last on the list, or by the same token Christians could claim that as Christ was foretold in the old testiment thier religion is as old as Judaism (forgive Sh#t spelling).

Islam was a spinoff of Christianity.

Abraham had an affair with his servant woman, and a kid was born. From that kid, came Islam. Then Abraham had that kid god talked about, and how god tested him with his son. From the fortold kid, came Christianity.

Islam was a spinoff of Christianity.

Abraham had an affair with his servant woman, and a kid was born. From that kid, came Islam. Then Abraham had that kid god talked about, and how god tested him with his son. From the fortold kid, came Christianity.Isaac and Ismael. Both owed by their birthright the promised land. A millenia or two later, and that same fight over the same few square miles of rocks and dust continues.

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

Hinduism - Really old! 6000CE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000CE
Judaism 1000CE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

Hey.hey...you forgot

Native American tradional pantheism/naturalist 20,000 yrs old, at least 10,000 confirmed by recent digs of my people.

Islam was a spinoff of Christianity.

Abraham had an affair with his servant woman, and a kid was born. From that kid, came Islam. Then Abraham had that kid god talked about, and how god tested him with his son. From the fortold kid, came Christianity.

*blinking at the screen*

thats the kind of "religion's version of history" explanation. judaism came from abraham and moses. it caught on and has been going for ...... 3000 years or so.

jesus was jew born more than a thousand years later. he preached to the jews about a whole new interpretation of their relationship to god.
it caught on, starting in about 30 AD and going to the present time.

mohammed was neither jewish nor christian when he got his relevation from god some..... 800? years after jesus died. he taught his fellow arabs that there was only one god, allah, and that he had some rules he thought they should follow. it caught on and goes to the present time also

Hinduism - Really old! 6000CE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000CE
Judaism 1000CE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

Hey.hey...you forgot

Native American tradional pantheism/naturalist 20,000 yrs old, at least 10,000 confirmed by recent digs of my people.

and Egypt/Babylon/Ancient Greece/Rome but can't remember dates for these either.

Islam was a spinoff of Christianity.

Abraham had an affair with his servant woman, and a kid was born. From that kid, came Islam. Then Abraham had that kid god talked about, and how god tested him with his son. From the fortold kid, came Christianity.

Hence the umbrella phrase Abrahamic religions

Hinduism - Really old! 6000CE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000CE
Judaism 1000CE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

Hey.hey...you forgot

Native American tradional pantheism/naturalist 20,000 yrs old, at least 10,000 confirmed by recent digs of my people.

Pantheism may be 20,000 years old, but it wasn't Native American until around 12,000 years ago, when humans first crossed Beringia and began colonizing North America (although I admit the chronology is a little sketchy). Please note that I mean no offense, it's just that I'm an anthropology major and I just took a class on this, so I tend to nit-pick on this subject.

One must also take into consideration that a religion changes a great deal over time. Judaism is more than five thousand years old, but it is very different now from what it was, say, 2000 years ago - back then we made animal sacrifices, like a lot of other religious groups in the area, and only high priests knew the Torah. Now we don't make sacrifices and in Orthodox communities any male can learn the Torah, while among Conservatives and others women can learn it too.

But as far as the timeline for Judaism, Christianity and Islam are concerned, Judaism came first (5000 or more years old), Christianity next (about 2000 years old, though it was actually a radical sect of Judaism until some decades or centuries after Jesus died), and Islam last, in the 7th or 8th century.

Pantheism may be 20,000 years old, but it wasn't Native American until around 12,000 years ago, when humans first crossed Beringia and began colonizing North America (although I admit the chronology is a little sketchy).

with the monte verde date set at 12,500 ybp (and possibly an earlier layer at 33,000 ybp), their arrival in north america must be fairly significantly earlier. 20,000 isn't a bad estimate.

Pantheism may be 20,000 years old, but it wasn't Native American until around 12,000 years ago, when humans first crossed Beringia and began colonizing North America (although I admit the chronology is a little sketchy).

with the monte verde date set at 12,500 ybp (and possibly an earlier layer at 33,000 ybp), their arrival in north america must be fairly significantly earlier. 20,000 isn't a bad estimate.

I can't account for say British Manitoba, Yasketchawan, or Alaska, or even further south as the trail for the future descendants of the various tribes that migrated south but carbon dating of some of the Iroquis and Cherokee or even older Algonquin (a mutual ancestor to both Iroquis/Cherokee) burial mounds come to about 10,000 yrs..and if one gives even a conservative estimate of when those that would become Native Americans entered into Canada/Alaska from Siberia based on millenia, 20,000 can be assumed can it not...just curious...

Pantheism may be 20,000 years old, but it wasn't Native American until around 12,000 years ago, when humans first crossed Beringia and began colonizing North America (although I admit the chronology is a little sketchy).

with the monte verde date set at 12,500 ybp (and possibly an earlier layer at 33,000 ybp), their arrival in north america must be fairly significantly earlier. 20,000 isn't a bad estimate.

Monte Verde is the only site in the New World with a date that old, and nobody can seem to come up with a good explanation for how people got down there so fast, whether by migrating along the coast or going down the hypothetical ice-free passage between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets and spreading throughout the North American continent and then south. If these folks were anything like hunter-gatherer peoples of the modern era, their populations could not have moved or expanded fast enough to get down there after their ancestors came across Beringia.

If there were other sites that old, I'd say that maybe there was an earlier opening of Beringia and people came through there, but there isn't, so I'm inclined to think that there's something screwy with the dating of Monte Verde. Also remember, there's a whole lot of time between 20,000 years ago and 12,500 years ago.

I'm impressed that you knew about Monte Verde, though. Are you a fellow anthro major?

If I'm right, we Muslims believe that Islam was first (surprise surprise!)

And I think Adam was the first prophet

If I'm right, we Muslims believe that Islam was first (surprise surprise!)

And I think Adam was the first prophet

but doesnt your calendar start with the date of something that mohammed did?
or do you consider that islam started before mohammed?
when DID islam start?

If you consider Muhammed the founder of Islam, then it could not of started before the 630s or so. He was alive around this time and preaching, so unless he could travel in time and I missed that little fact in class, Islam is the 'youngest' of the Abrahamic religions.

Of course, you could argue that Mormonism is younger, but I'm trying to keep it simple and staying with those three, disregarding all their various offshoots.

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

dude, its ssooooo BC and AD

none of this common era and before the common era crap

besides we'll just start calling it Christ's era and befor Christ's era

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

dude, its ssooooo BC and AD

none of this common era and before the common era crap

besides we'll just start calling it Christ's era and before Christ's era

As for what the oldest religion is - can't say really. Probably worship of the sun or the rain etc by early man or proto man

Well, it would seem logical if the first religion was the Sumerian one, them being the oldest civilization (or was that India... or China?) Anyway, I think the sumerians came first, so it would make sense if their religion was oldest, but I'm just guessing.

As for what the oldest religion is - can't say really. Probably worship of the sun or the rain etc by early man or proto man

Well, it would seem logical if the first religion was the Sumerian one, them being the oldest civilization (or was that India... or China?) Anyway, I think the sumerians came first, so it would make sense if their religion was oldest, but I'm just guessing.

they have found neanderthal graves. dead people lovingly buried by the living. thats religion and way before sumeria

Christianity cam last out of those - It is a spin off of Judaism
I remember hearing that Islam and Judaism were interpretions of an older religion.

As for what the oldest religion is - can't say really. Probably worship of the sun or the rain etc by early man or proto man
No Islam traces it's roots back before Chrisianity but was founded long after. It's all back to the old testiment and brothers double crossing each other. But Islam is the last on the list, or by the same token Christians could claim that as Christ was foretold in the old testiment thier religion is as old as Judaism (forgive Sh#t spelling).

Actually it was not the brothers (thinking Easu & Jacob?) who were sons of Isaac and Rebekah but Isaac's mother Sarai (Sarah) and Ismael's mother Hagar who were at the head of the problem that arose. The boys (Isaac and Ismael) were far apart in age, about 14 years. It was at the celebration for Isaac's weaning that the matter came to a head and Sarah had Arbraham send Hagar & Ismael away so that Isaac would be the sole inheritor of Abraham's considerable wealth and name.

:shock:

As for what the oldest religion is - can't say really. Probably worship of the sun or the rain etc by early man or proto man

Well, it would seem logical if the first religion was the Sumerian one, them being the oldest civilization (or was that India... or China?) Anyway, I think the sumerians came first, so it would make sense if their religion was oldest, but I'm just guessing.

humans = much older than cities. the first religion was probably some form of animism and ancestor worship.

Oldest still practised religions are Buddhism (500 BCE)
Hinduism (3000 BCE)
and Judaism (1200 BCE)

and Zoroastrianism (1500 BCE)

If there were other sites that old, I'd say that maybe there was an earlier opening of Beringia and people came through there, but there isn't, so I'm inclined to think that there's something screwy with the dating of Monte Verde. Also remember, there's a whole lot of time between 20,000 years ago and 12,500 years ago.

I'm impressed that you knew about Monte Verde, though. Are you a fellow anthro major?

well, there are a few possibilities of pre-clovis north american sites, but nothing super solid yet. but monte verde was opened up to some pretty serious scrutiny precisely because it is so out of line with the next earliest site. and from what i understand, it has stood up quite well so far.

alas, my university didn't have a full anthro major. all i got was this lousy anthro minor.

Oldest still practised religions are Buddhism (500 BCE)
Hinduism (3000 BCE)
and Judaism (1200 BCE)

we have ancient rock art that depicts ceremonies that are at least related to ceremonies that are still practiced (or were until very recently) by a number of cultures. they probably blow those numbers away.

Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE


Check your facts!
Gautama Buddha lived around 500BC

Wow... the question was answered in the first reply and the rest of this is just people saying, "No, my religion is older" or repeating the same answer, sometimes incorrectly.

Christianity cam last out of those - It is a spin off of Judaism
I remember hearing that Islam and Judaism were interpretions of an older religion.

As for what the oldest religion is - can't say really. Probably worship of the sun or the rain etc by early man or proto man
No Islam traces it's roots back before Chrisianity but was founded long after. It's all back to the old testiment and brothers double crossing each other. But Islam is the last on the list, or by the same token Christians could claim that as Christ was foretold in the old testiment thier religion is as old as Judaism (forgive Sh#t spelling).

Actually it was not the brothers (thinking Easu & Jacob?) who were sons of Isaac and Rebekah but Isaac's mother Sarai (Sarah) and Ismael's mother Hagar who were at the head of the problem that arose. The boys (Isaac and Ismael) were far apart in age, about 14 years. It was at the celebration for Isaac's weaning that the matter came to a head and Sarah had Arbraham send Hagar & Ismael away so that Isaac would be the sole inheritor of Abraham's considerable wealth and name.

:shock:
Thanks for that, I consider my self a little bit wiser.
If you call it a religion (and it would appear to be) are the native Australians not able to claim the oldest religion? and one that to some degree is still practiced.

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

You're correct of course.. but then there are religions even older then all of those. Religion in one form or another has been around since "modern humans" as soon as they started to walk up right and understand things on a deeper level then animals, people have feared some thing or another in the form of a higher being.

Islam was a spinoff of Christianity.

Abraham had an affair with his servant woman, and a kid was born. From that kid, came Islam. Then Abraham had that kid god talked about, and how god tested him with his son. From the fortold kid, came Christianity.


i dont think ive ever read more bullshit in my life
go and actually read the original

You're correct of course.. but then there are religions even older then all of those. Religion in one form or another has been around since "modern humans" as soon as they started to walk up right and understand things on a deeper level then animals, people have feared some thing or another in the form of a higher being.

True but I think most people are taking this to mean organised religions in semi-recognisable forms as their modern counterparts.

e.g. Hinduism is a massive conglomerate of all the regional religions of the Indian subcontinent amalgamated into the religious beliuefs of the Aryan invaders so its roots could be said to lie far past recorded history.

True but I think most people are taking this to mean organised religions in semi-recognisable forms as their modern counterparts.

and shamanistic religions still exist and are most certainly much older. what people really mean is 'religions that i have heard of'

Islam was a spinoff of Christianity.

Abraham had an affair with his servant woman, and a kid was born. From that kid, came Islam. Then Abraham had that kid god talked about, and how god tested him with his son. From the fortold kid, came Christianity.


i dont think ive ever read more bullshit in my life
go and actually read the original

after some reflection, i may have over reacted

after more reflection, i doubt anyone cares

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/downloads/cj_34874.jpg

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

Wrong, Buddhism is about 600 years older than Christianity.

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

dude, its ssooooo BC and AD

none of this common era and before the common era crap

besides we'll just start calling it Christ's era and before Christ's era

If you want to argue semantics when it comes to years, then we can have lots of fun. For instance, you are only looking at the Gregorian calander, which lists the current year as being 2004 AD/CE. However according to the traditional Chinese calander it is 4702, the Hewbrew calander has it at 5765, Muslims put it at 1425 (note: all are approximate, as not everyone has New Years as January 1st, which England and America didn't have until 1752, before then New Years was on March 25th). The important part of that post is that he got the order of establishment correct (well, except that Judaism ever so slightly predates Buddahism (between 3 and 500 years, depending on the source), even though all the founding years aren't correct.

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/downloads/cj_34874.jpg

HA! This reminds me of the Swedish firm that's designing urinals to look like a huge pair of lips.

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

dude, its ssooooo BC and AD

none of this common era and before the common era crap

besides we'll just start calling it Christ's era and before Christ's era

If you want to argue semantics when it comes to years, then we can have lots of fun. For instance, you are only looking at the Gregorian calander, which lists the current year as being 2004 AD/CE. However according to the traditional Chinese calander it is 4702, the Hewbrew calander has it at 5765, Muslims put it at 1425 (note: all are approximate, as not everyone has New Years as January 1st, which England and America didn't have until 1752, before then New Years was on March 25th). The important part of that post is that he got the order of establishment correct, even though all the founding years aren't correct.

How about we skip all the BS and just use the calendar most of us use today; it therefore being 15 May 2004. But I guess that was your point by outlining how confusing it would get to actually argue the semantics. :)

How about we skip all the BS and just use the calendar most of us use today; it therefore being 15 May 2004. But I guess that was your point by outlining how confusing it would get to actually argue the semantics. :)

That was more or less my point, most people (IMO, at least) tend to get too caught up on "when" everything took place. Time (and the measurment thereof) is a human construct and a pretty vauge and abstract one at that. Arguing over something as asanine as CE vs. AD, serves no real point as we can only truly comprehend the temporal coordinates of an event using one or more non-substantial/invented systems. While said systems do serve a purpose (to give events context and the ability to trace cause and effect), quibbling over a tiny difference in viewing them seems comedically pointless.

*rolls eyes at some of the people in this thread*

Judaism was the first of those three. Then Christianity was derived from Judaism, and slightly later Islam was also derived from Judaism. Islam was NOT derived from Christianity. Judaism wasn't the first religion ever, though - it's just the earliest of that triad.

worship of the sun god followed by the god of fire and then ?

worship of the sun god followed by the god of fire and then ?

I acctually think that female worship came first (no, I'm not talking about like in the Da Vinci Code). The earliest religious art-work (that can be identified as such) were effigies of female figures, most commonly with large pendulous breasts and typically displayed as being heavy with child. Such evidence as led to the idea that worship of fertility and the earth came to be the earliest form of religion, with the worship of the sun and other natural forces coming later. Of course, I might be wrong, as it has been a couple of semesters since my last Art History class.

Maybe that was porn? :D

Maybe that was porn? :D

Could be, if so then early man had a thing for fatties.

Atheism. :P

Atheism. :P :shock:

The fertility thing may be right, taste changes over time. Strength was valued, buxom women were sexy. Today values are different.

Tanned people are sexy now but pale ones were before. Different strokes..

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

dude, its ssooooo BC and AD

none of this common era and before the common era crap

besides we'll just start calling it Christ's era and before Christ's era

And we'll mock you for being ignorant.

Anyways, Judaism is the oldest of those religions, followed by Christianity and then Islam. Ba'hai is also often considered an Abrahamic faith as it was founded by a Muslim cleric.

worship of the sun god followed by the god of fire and then ?

I acctually think that female worship came first (no, I'm not talking about like in the Da Vinci Code). The earliest religious art-work (that can be identified as such) were effigies of female figures, most commonly with large pendulous breasts and typically displayed as being heavy with child. Such evidence as led to the idea that worship of fertility and the earth came to be the earliest form of religion, with the worship of the sun and other natural forces coming later. Of course, I might be wrong, as it has been a couple of semesters since my last Art History class.

those statues dont prove that female worship was the first practiced

:oops:

Hinduism - Really old! 6000 BCE?
Buddhism (from Hinduism) 2000 BCE
Judaism 1000 BCE or older?
Christianity (from Judaism) 0 CE
Islam (from Judaism and Christianity) 7th century CE

Wrong, Buddhism is about 600 years older than Christianity.


600 older than Christianity.

http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/BUDDHISM/SIDD.HTM

He [Siddhartha Gautama] was the chief's son of a tribal group, the Shakyas, so he was born a Kshatriya around 566 BC

worship of the sun god followed by the god of fire and then ?

I acctually think that female worship came first (no, I'm not talking about like in the Da Vinci Code). The earliest religious art-work (that can be identified as such) were effigies of female figures, most commonly with large pendulous breasts and typically displayed as being heavy with child. Such evidence as led to the idea that worship of fertility and the earth came to be the earliest form of religion, with the worship of the sun and other natural forces coming later. Of course, I might be wrong, as it has been a couple of semesters since my last Art History class.

those statues dont prove that female worship was the first practiced

That is true, no more than any piece of religious art can be seen as proof of the veracity or context of a belief. However they are the earliest surviving (if I remember correctly from my textbook, the earliest such effigy dates to around 14,000 BCE) sculpture to be found in religious-type setting (the one I'm reffering to was found on a small make-shift alter in a cave in SE Asia), as such it has helped give rise to the theory (as with anything pre-dating written records, we can only speculate about the reverance or signifagance afforded to the idol, and the true purpose of the alter and icon) that reverance and worship were first given to the concept of birth and life (as represented by the characteristics common among similar sculptures) and other traditional themes associated with females.

Order of the religions as they first appeared on earth:
animism
shamanism (also known as withcraft)
polythiesm
cultism
hinduism
buddhism
taoism
Judaism
Zoaroastrianism
druidism
Christianity
Islam
Mormonism
Jehovas Witnessism
scientology
new ageism

Hinduism

Order of the religions as they first appeared on earth:
animism
shamanism (also known as withcraft)
polythiesm
cultism
hinduism
buddhism
taoism
Judaism
Zoaroastrianism
druidism
Christianity
Islam
Mormonism
Jehovas Witnessism
scientology
new ageism

I'm sure Zoroastrianism predates Judaism.

What is cultism?



::EDIT:: After some quick google searching, it seems to depend on when you say Judaism began.

Order of the religions as they first appeared on earth:
animism
shamanism (also known as withcraft)
polythiesm
cultism
hinduism
buddhism
taoism
Judaism
Zoaroastrianism
druidism
Christianity
Islam
Mormonism
Jehovas Witnessism
scientology
new ageism

I'm sure Zoroastrianism predates Judaism.

What is cultism?buddism is too early to, some need to be switched around

Order of the religions as they first appeared on earth:
animism
shamanism (also known as withcraft)
polythiesm
cultism
hinduism
buddhism
taoism
Judaism
Zoaroastrianism
druidism
Christianity
Islam
Mormonism
Jehovas Witnessism
scientology
new ageism

I'm sure Zoroastrianism predates Judaism.

What is cultism?buddism is too early to, some need to be switched around
cultism is when a religious leader has so much power that he can make people do what ever he wants. It was because of cultism that the greeks used to have something called temple prostitutes. These were women who lived and worked in the temples of the greek gods and what they would do is have intercourse with people who made offerings.
And you may be correct, I need to go back and find the my homemade timeline. It has a list of everthing when it first appeared. Including the first war which was approximately 3000 BC. Also the time of the world's first army I might add.

Order of the religions as they first appeared on earth:
animism
shamanism (also known as withcraft)
polythiesm
cultism
hinduism
buddhism
taoism
Judaism
Zoaroastrianism
druidism
Christianity
Islam
Mormonism
Jehovas Witnessism
scientology
new ageism

I'm sure Zoroastrianism predates Judaism.

What is cultism?buddism is too early to, some need to be switched around
cultism is when a religious leader has so much power that he can make people do what ever he wants. It was because of cultism that the greeks used to have something called temple prostitutes. These were women who lived and worked in the temples of the greek gods and what they would do is have intercourse with people who made offerings.
And you may be correct, I need to go back and find the my homemade timeline. It has a list of everthing when it first appeared. Including the first war which was approximately 3000 BC. Also the time of the world's first army I might add.

But this was just a Greek phenomneio (sp?), didn't the Philistines and Babylonians do it too (I know it was later)

Order of the religions as they first appeared on earth:
animism
shamanism (also known as withcraft)
polythiesm
cultism
hinduism
buddhism
taoism
Judaism
Zoaroastrianism
druidism
Christianity
Islam
Mormonism
Jehovas Witnessism
scientology
new ageism

I'm sure Zoroastrianism predates Judaism.

What is cultism?buddism is too early to, some need to be switched around
cultism is when a religious leader has so much power that he can make people do what ever he wants. It was because of cultism that the greeks used to have something called temple prostitutes. These were women who lived and worked in the temples of the greek gods and what they would do is have intercourse with people who made offerings.
And you may be correct, I need to go back and find the my homemade timeline. It has a list of everthing when it first appeared. Including the first war which was approximately 3000 BC. Also the time of the world's first army I might add.

But this was just a Greek phenomneio (sp?), didn't the Philistines and Babylonians do it too (I know it was later)
yes