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Originally Posted by Turban.
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)
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Hinduism stems from the search to find enlightenment. Thats why its changed so much, because they are open to change and advancements of their ideas. Youll find that most religions base their origions on some kind of prophetic revelation. One of my theorys or hypotheticals is attempting to peice together a larger translation based on what a central god figure (whether it be god, allah, brahman, etc) has given to different cultures in different ways to suit their way of life and ideals for faith. I also believe that the majority of these snuffed out religions you believe existed would most likly have been man made or forms of control which would have been more prevelant back in those times.
This theory of translation has little to do with my reason for asking the innitial question in my first post though.