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Originally Posted by Natural killa

sikhism
http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_10036.html

"Sikhism originated in the Punjab region of northwest India, where it drew on elements from Bhakti Hinduism and Islamic Sufism to develop into a distinctive religious tradition in its own right."

Shinto
http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_10030.html

"Shinto (or kami no michi, "way of the kami," or gods) is a prehistoric religious tradition indigenous to Japan, which has been influenced by Buddhism and Chinese religions"

Hinduism
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism.htm

"Hinduism does not have a single founder"

Wherever you go...it will state that hinduism is the oldest religion and has no single founder...thus..it was not influenced by others.

alot of religions if you think about it stem from alot og pagon beliefs that have been changed to fit the standards of the society that they are used in. organized religion as a whole can be good ...but at the same time...you also need to look at how the development of the society goes. i mean there are prolly hundreds even thousands of religions we don't know about. that just died out because the "monster" religions decided to snuff em out...you also have to count in the fact that there was no written history... and so everything was by word of mouth so if it died out it was because of a war or something. but religion was also sort of the history of a culture . hinduism is a organized religion but it had to stem from something (this was all we talked about for a semester in my religion class)