World Religion Day 2025 is on Sunday, January 19, 2025: Biggest religion in world. of present day?

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The biggest religion in the world of present day is Christinity. How is this? The Islam only the largest religion, and how christianity took this first place ? Christianity spreading all over the world and making conversions in every country. so, christianity become to top at present day.

Christianity: 2.1 billion

Islam: 1.5 billion

Hinduism: 900 million

Chinese traditional religion: 394 million

Buddhism: 376 million

primal-indigenous: 300 million

African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million

Sikhism: 23 million

Juche: 19 million

Spiritism: 15 million

Judaism: 14 million

Baha'i: 7 million

Jainism: 4.2 million

Shinto: 4 million

Cao Dai: 4 million

Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million

Tenrikyo: 2 million

Neo-Paganism: 1 million

Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand

Rastafarianism: 600 thousand

Scientology: 500 thousand

do you think the world can bennifit from a study all religions day?

The world can bennefit from it though everyones minds have been hardwired from a young age to believe in one and from a young age hearing people of their faith criticize another, and so on. People in this day and age are close minded and wouldn't give you a second of thought when it comes to religion. And truth be told the oldest religion in the world is Hinduism, and the only religion never to have a bloody war, persecution, etc.... because of its beliefs.

Why do so many people believe that the world is about to end in 2012?

Can you name any of these societies and religions that actually say this?

There are none, not even the Maya.

The Maya were a powerful central American nation right up until about the year 1600 and there are still something like 7 million of them. Their astronomer - priests found that they could predict the cycle of the seasons, the appearances of Venus as a morning or evening star and even eclipses by counting days. Several other civilisations have done the same in ancient times. This does not mean they could predict anything like the end of the world or whether little "Johnny" would grow up to be a farmer, a soldier or anything else. They might have tried stuff like that, but it has never worked for anyone except by sheer chance. Modern Maya like Apolinario Chile Pixtun were already fed up with questions about this a few years ago.

One result was that they counted days. They did not count days in tens and hundreds, they counted in 20s and 18s. Then from there on in 20s. That gave them a unit of 360 days which was close enough to a year. They knew the year was 365 days and probably about 365.24 . . . .days as well, but that was not important to the day count.

Twenty times twenty times 360 days was called a bak'tun, it's a bit short of 400 years obviously. They also believed that 13 was a lucky number. Now, as far as we can tell, the old Maya believed that the world was created about 11 August 3114BC (by our count) and if you add 13 bak'tuns to that you get 21 December 2012 which is the solstice. This is an estimate made by modern scholars, it may not be correct but leap years have nothing to do with it.

Over the past 40 years, the late Dr. Jose Arguelles, one of the founders of "Earth Day" began to go off his rocker. He became obsessed with the Maya and their time counting systems and started to claim he was a reincarnated Maya and a lot of other bizarre stuff. One of the claims was that there would be a great spiritual change on 21 December 2012.

Then in the 1990s Nancy Lieder began to claim she was abducted by aliens and told the Earth would be damaged by the close approach of a stray planet she called X. This was supposed to ben in May 2003 and cause a geographic pole shift which would kill 2/3 of the population, and it was supposed to happen in May 2003. She started web sites and so forth which attracted jokers and crazies. Some of the jokers were confidence men and started to make a bit of money selling books about impending doom and destruction.

When nothing happened in May 2003, the confidence men wanted to keep on making money so they postponed planet X to fit in with the existing nonsense started by Jose Arguelles years before. Another nine years of making money from the gullible and the paranoid.

Since then many other frauds and crazy theories that have existed for a long time have been added, alignments of this and that, solar flares, photon belts, Nostradamus, you name it. We saw much of the same stuff telling us the world would end in 1999 / 2000. The photon belt story was supposed to happen in 1958!

These people are in it for the money. They are selling books and DVDs. Their dot-com web sites make a fraction of a cent for them from advertisers every time someone opens them. They make schlockumentaries and sell them to the History Channel and any other TV outlet that will buy.

It's all about money.

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