What is the oldest religion to still have followers today?
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Atheism.  Like it or not, there has always been at least 1 Atheist in existence throughout human history.
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Cuniform is the oldest written language. The old testament was written in Hebrew and Chaldean (Daniel)
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Yes Hinduism.  It still has early elements of Sun worship, mother goddess worship, nature worship even shamans surviving in its folds. It is a tradition which never rejects older theories. But at the same time it is progressive. \n\nNot to forget that Hindus never tried to fix a date and limit the origin of life in time period of a few thosand years ever. It always been aware  of its tradition as being very ancient. Thats because of its continuity.\n\nThere have been many recent archeological discoveries which only indicate the Hindu civilisation is much older that previous scholars wanted to believe. \n\nMostly they were western researchers who tried to fit Harrapa and vedic tradition in Biblic time line. But discoveries like \n\n1. A City Dating Back to 7500 BC, Krishna's city Dwarka \n\n 2. Satelite discovery of disappeared River Saraswati\n\n 3. Satellite Photos of the Ancient (17,50,000 years )\nBridge Between Ramesvaram and Sri Lanka, mentioned in Ramayana and said to be constructed by his army.\n\n4. A 40,000 Year Old Cave Painting South of New Delhi,\n\n5. Ancient City Found Off the Coast of Mamallapuram, \n\ntake it to very long back.\n\nDwarka:\n"Samples collected include artefacts, wood pieces, pottery materials, hearth pieces, animal bones. They were sent to Manipur University, Oxford University, London, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hanover, Germany for analysis and dating. The results were astonishing. It was found beyond doubt that the samples belonged to a period going upto7800 years (BP) Before Present !"\n\nThough Archeologiccal research is a costly affair and heavy population + Loads of sedimentation in Indian basins does not help either. Harrappa itself has 7 layers-Minimum. It wasnt possible to dig more and see if there were still more layers burried under. But other excavations around India definitely enough to prove that it was a widely spread civilisation and not a localised one.\n\nDiscovery of SARASWATI again by NASA and researches in south India also prove that ARYAN Immigration theory is fake:\n\n"strong evidence that the Neolithic people of Tamil Nadu and the Indus Valley people "shared the same language, which can only be Dravidian and not Indo-Aryan." He added that before this discovery, the southernmost occurrence of the Indus script was at Daimabad, Maharashtra on the Pravara River in the Godavari Valley."\nhttp://www.hindu.com/2006/05/01/stories/2006050112670100.htm\n\nCheck out the sources given below for details and images of some of discoveries.
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It depends what you mean. If you mean when did people start to worship a God or Goddess, then evidence of early pagan religions have been found in cave paintings! So a long long long time ago\n\nEDIT: Just thought if you mean when did organised religion start, I know that Egyptian civilization can be traced back as far as 5000 bc ish, I think that when the very early form of their religion came into being. Not sure if theres any that are older.
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The early churches, the Catholic and Orthodox still practice the ancient ways.  Protestant churches, shocked by the extensive sin in the Church of the 16th century broke away and developed their own beliefs.  Episcopal and Lutheran Churches are similar to Catholic.  Baptist and other sectarian are driven by the prophetic component of Christianity.  Pentecostal groups await the arrival of the Spirt.  Nazarene's and other Wesleyan groups, such as Methodists, are half a step away from Episcopalians and Presbyterians.  Religious Science is a new invention as are the Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnessess.\n\nLook around, but don't stay too long anywhere.  Ask the specific groups what they believe.  They probably all believe in about 90% of the same things.
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In most religions that predate Christianity have a god or idol that died and rose from the grave.
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Hinduism is the oldest religion. it has a history of 5000 years. Its original name is "Adi Sanatana Devi Devatha dharma". that was when all human beings were embodiment of divine virtues, this world was heaven at that time. Now as the world became hell and People lost their divine virtues its being called as hindu religion, the most peculiar thing about Hinduism is no one knows who is the founder for this religion, Bhagavad Geetha is the book of hindus. It is a wonderful Book, It gives the insight of soul and God. It teaches how to change ur self. and lots of things.
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Hinduism is the world's most ancient religion.The Vedas which are considered to be primary religious texts of Hinduism dates back many centuries BC before any other known religion would have or known to be existed.
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This question is a blanket statement "modern religion" is a very large term.  Then you go on to address Christianity.  As a matter of interest, in numbers, it falls number 3 after Islam and Jews.\n\nThe fact is there are many alternates these days because they just don't wish to be guided by an outdated book which the above religions have...each is a religion of the book.\n\nFor an open minded look at what religion can be...guiding, comforting, loving, caring, kindness and acceptance...go to Spiritualism, Unity, Universal, etc. etc.
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hinduism ,busdhism, have survived christianity and islam. there are many other faiths are also surviving . reviving the older faiths is not possible in christian and islamic countries . in islam if somebody converts the punishment is death. so forget of revival in those countries. christians declare them followers of satan and percecute them . no one revived the relegion that existed before chritianity because who did were burnt on stake as satan's disciples.
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im not a 100% but i think linux may be the oldest
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The Old Religion, refers to the various pagan religions that existed before Christianity and that were for the most part destroyed or oppressed violently.  \n\nThere is a misconception that Wicca is THE Old Religion, Wicca is derived from these religions and the practitioners of Wicca often mix and match these Old rites and archetypes as they see fit.  It may seem strange that they are allowed to do that but, it is one of the strengths of Wicca.
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click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religions#Largest_religions_or_belief_systems_by_number_of_adherents
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Jesus Christ, 2,000 years after his death, he still leads me
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The Oldest Church In The World\n\n\nOur Lord said, "Upon this rock I will build my church" (Matthew 16:18). Jesus promised to build a church -- it was to be His church. In Mark 9:1, Christ said this kingdom (church) would come with power. After His resurrection, Jesus told his apostles to wait in Jerusalem for the power (Acts 1:4-8). The power came on the first Pentecost day following the resurrection of Christ and His church was established on that day, according to Acts 2. Jesus is both the founder and the foundation of the church one reads about in the New Testament. "Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 3:11). Any church established by any person other than Christ, in any place other than Jerusalem, at any time other than the first Pentecost after the Lord's resurrection, is not the New Testament church. The church of Christ is over 1900 years old! \n\nThe church Jesus built exists in the world today. It exists anywhere people abandon human opinions about religion and submit entirely and completely to the teaching of the New Testament. You can identify Christ's church in the world today! Read what the Bible says on the name we are to wear, the worship we are to offer God, the work of Christians, the organization and government of the church, and compare Scriptural teaching to what men are doing in the religious world. Where you find people who are "Christians only," worshipping and working in exact conformity to the Word of God, without human creeds or catechisms, without additions, subtractions or substitutions to the teachings taught in the Scripture, you will have found the Lord's church. It is in the world today! \n\nWe encourage all people to come back to the Bible, back to Christ, back to His teachings as revealed in the New Testament, and back to Christ's church
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n wat religion wld tt b?
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If you go to Google.com, and type in "oldest living people" you will find some answers.  See the sources below.  \n\nby the way, most of the questions on this site can be answered similarly.