Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Why are there multiple religions?“, Leave a Reply below!
because there are diferent regions with diferent culture,experience,history so people develope their own concept of moral value.or religion.with out ignoring the influence of it,s creator,called god or budda,ect.love all..dionicio carrasco
Because people like structure and dogma. They like thinking that if they follow a certain set of rules, everything will be ok. As far as different religions, I think people like power and so religions are created so the creators can have power over their followers.
There are too many cultural and historical reasons for just a comment. In general, it is difficult to let go of a structure that seemed to have supported you when you were young, but some feel either not supported or even threatened by those structures, so some move on and create something new, while others keep the old. As more children are taught about the range of beliefs in the world instead of being indoctrinated into just one, it will be interesting to see what happens.
Because people can’t agree! It’s obvious! Everybody wants their share of power.
There are multiple religions because everyone wants to believe that the world somehow began with THEIR culture, and THEIR stories. Everyone would like to believe that they are somehow connected to the source of humanity. And if the original humans look a whole lot different from that reflection we see staring back in the mirror, then it’s a bit of blow to our fragile egos.
Why are there numerous political parties, flavors of ice cream, brands of vodka, styles of dress, or even 30 major league baseball teams?
Ego.
Multiple religions may develop for the same reasons multiple cultures do – due to varying perceptions of life’s experiences.
Another reason may be the desire of egocentric individuals within a community to be recognized as worthwhile, as leaders thereby seeking out followers and exploiting their need to belong to a unique group.
Followers may then be won over by sympathizing with the struggle and hardships of the leader. This process becomes especially apparent during political campaigns.
Because there are multiple path to G-d, just as the Torah declares, no way is right or wrong, as long as you do good, you got salvation.
Because creatures sharing roughly the same neurology existing in geographically isolated groups will tend to have the same ideas in different ways.
Well, obviously they can’t all be true, because many of them are mutually exclusive. This is evidence that religion is man-made, and the reason they are all over the world is based on neurology.
Religion is people’s understanding of God through different time periods, countries, and perception. As people we have a unique mind of our own and different interpretations I personally feel that we are all talking about the same thing in every religion it all is the same God. It’s like when you hear stories/tales from a culture and you might hear a similar story/tale in a different culture but the moral of the story is still the same….
Why multiple religions? There are as many ‘religions’ as there are believers since each person has a different understanding of what their religion is.
Cultural, geographic, and environmental differences produced different results when combined with the overall tendency towards religious thought.
Even within a common tradition there are multiple threads that develop as a religion crosses cultural boundaries. The differences between Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, for instance. Or the different experience of Christian practice between someone in Germany, someone in Turkey, and someone in Alabama.
Essentially, there are multiple religions for the same basic reasons there are multiple cultures.
Every person has different experiences; different thoughts; different actions. Religions come about because people with similar experiences, thoughts and actions join together to form a community of support for each other.
There is no God.
Because humans have multiple ways of coping with the fact of mortality. It doesn’t mean that any of them are true.
As stated by others, every individual has both different experiences, and a different perspective regarding them. However, this is just one part of a massive effect. As individuals gather together and discuss events, they each “taint” the beliefs of the others, and are tainted themselves. Eventually these individual beliefs “average” into a set of beliefs of the whole group, even though some individuals might retain some of their original beliefs to some degree. The beliefs of individuals change over time, and thus so do those of groups.
Then again of course, there are always those who form their beliefs strictly in opposition to a set of beliefs they dislike, or a set of beliefs they find irrelevant but belong to an individual or group they dislike. These are rare though, and don’t typically last long. Generally they’re merely cults, though not all cults are of this type.
Diversity in religion comes from diversity in human experience. When I look to the full moon I see a face, others a rabbit. That is all.
Like languages, and species, geographic separation and the passage of time will yield variation.
All the great religions were inspired, but not started, by the various incarnations, gurus and deities. These True Prophets appeared in the times and at the places where humans were going off the path of dharma (or true religion) to restore a sense of balance and relieve human suffering. In these modern times, the teachings of these religions have largely strayed from the ordinal masters’ and have been co-opted by people who are power oriented and/or money oriented. They have each plucked a flower from the same tree of life claiming to have the key to salvation. What is needed is an integration of all these religions because they all have at their core the truth.
The variation comes from the fact that a central part of religion is the image of the whole thing, and this image varies greatly. At a minimum the whole thing is the physical universe without a God. This suits the scientists who don’t want acts of God messing up their experiments. Incrementally we can add a wholly transendent mystery. This is the God of Einstein and the American founding fathers. If we add that this mystery supports our physical world we have Brachman, the great Hindu image.
Next comes the thousands of Gods and Godesses with limits. This includes all of the Gods with human traits, the old man in the sky, the middle eastern creator God who is only good, etc. This is the most popular group beause it is easy to relate to the whole thing if we see it as having a human nature.
Next comes the image where the universe is God and we relate in an organic way. We are God’s white blood cells, or brain cells. When you remember that a white blood cell can save the whole body, this is an empowering image.
Finally we have the limitless image of God. God is not only the imminant and transendent universe, God is acting out every role. This is the Hindu greater self, and the God of the mystics. Alan Watts in his images of man lecture describes this nicely.
It is this variation of images that causes the apparent variation in religions. We have one whole thing and many images.
A disconnection in the first human beings, consistent lack of unity and the ensuing variations on a common theme.
Different aliens, different times
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all religions except one are corrupted/wrong by Satan
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different folks, different belief systems
Because all gods are man made and everyone makes up their own (personal) god(s). Sadly, some some of these man made delusions evolve to become world class religious cults. Unfortunately this desire to worship is a manifestation of a theistic society and thrust on people from birth. It is quite disturbing that so many are so deceived by so little.
Because we are creative to create our own world to satisfy our ignorence.
Quite literally, because throughout history there have been multiple men who have made claims about having a special relationship with God and have been convincing or crafty enough to gather large, lasting followings of people who have no special relationship to God and want one enough to believe a man who seems quite confident of his own.
I really need to explain: Because these men have differing claims about the nature of their personal relationship with God leaving room for division and the branching that is bound to occur through divisions.
Because it is not-scientific and so there cannot be one unavoidable truth. It is subjective and so each sect thinks its different interpretation is correct.
Because of evolutionary processes: human beings live in differing conditions in different parts of the planet and undergo different experiences.
My theory is that all religions are fake and all religions are real my theory also is that their are different realms a christian realm , Buddhism,etc. how these religions are formed is their are realms the gods of those realms transfer their thinking to humans on earth ,earth is the center of all these religions then that person will spread the ideas then they go into the realm once they die (EXAMPLE:JESUS Christ spread his ideas of Christianity) then it spread once a person dies they will go to that realm once there are nomore people on earth that believe in that religion the realm will close until someone else believes in that religion (I AM ONLY 12 YEARS OLD AND I THOUGHT OF THIS ) MY RELIGION IS ABOUT ASKING QUESTIONS OF THE UNIverse hopefully finding the secret of the UNIverse UNI meaning one My Religion is call (Uniism) followers only ONE me i hope you can convert but if not that’s perfectly fine (i ask questions So that’s how i think there’s different religions).
cause are imaginations are just as big as are gullibility and ego.