Religions dont Invent themselves.
yes they do ..
Religion is a
cultural system of
behaviors and
practices,
mythologies,
world views, sacred texts, holy places, ethics, and
societal organisation that relate
humanity to what an anthropologist has called "an order of existence".
[1] Different religions may contain various elements, ranging from "the belief in spiritual beings",
[2] the "
divine",
[3] "sacred things",
[4] "
faith",
[5] a "supernatural being or supernatural beings"
[6] such as
God or
angels, or "...some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life."
[7]
Religious practices may include
rituals,
sermons, commemoration or veneration (of a
deity,
gods, or
goddesses),
sacrifices,
festivals,
feasts,
trances,
initiations,
funerary services,
matrimonial services,
meditation,
prayer,
music,
art,
dance,
public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have
sacred histories and
narratives, which may be preserved in sacred
scriptures, and
symbols and
holy places, that aim to explain the
meaning of life, the
origin of life, or the
Universe.[
citation needed] Traditionally,
faith, in addition to reason, has been considered a source of
religious beliefs.
[8] About 84% of the world's population is affiliated with one of the five largest religions, namely
Christianity,
Islam,
Hinduism,
Buddhism or forms of
folk religion.
[9]
With the onset of the
modernisation of and the
scientific revolution in the western world, some aspects of religion have cumulatively been criticized. Though the religiously unaffliated, including
atheism (the rejection of
belief in the existence of
deities) and
agnosticism (the belief that the truth of certain claims – especially metaphysical and religious claims such as whether God, the divine or the supernatural exist – are unknown and perhaps unknowable), have grown globally, many of the unaffiliated still have various religious beliefs.
[10] About 16% of the world's population is religiously unaffiliated.
[9]
The study of religion encompasses a wide variety of academic disciplines, including
theology, comparative religion and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer various explanations for the origins and workings of religion.