I think there are many inaccuracies. Many branches are dead but seems to be alive. Some branches are actually should not be separated. Nice try tough.
The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)
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#12I checked some random branches and found a lot of errors and inaccuracies. Nice visualization though
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#13Is Greek / Roman / Norse mythology (basically everything Western that isn't Christianity) not considered religion? Because maybe I'm just blind but I can't seem to find those anywhere in the tree.
It seems to be incomplete and inaccurate in a lot of ways. For example, Christianity borrows elements of Zoroastrianism and Judaism is actually derived from ancient Babylonian polytheism. Maybe I just didn't see it, but Confucianism seems to be missing too.
> Judaism is actually derived from ancient Babylonian polytheism.
That isn't true. At best, and even this is debated, there are some traces, but it's not in the slightest "derived from".
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#14This is very inaccurate. It invents splits in Judaism (for example) that simply don't exist.
For example it has a bizarre split of Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai and even more bizarrely continues the lines to modern times as if there are actually two separate branches.
When the parts that I know best are inaccurate, it seems likely to me that everything else will be just as bad.
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#15Nice visualization! I feel like there's room for many improvements both technically and in accuracy, though.
For example, the Bahá'í Wold Center is not a branch, though. It's just the spiritual and administrative center of the Bahá'í Faith [0][1]. Likewise, the Universal House of Justice [2][3] is the supreme governing institution of the Bahá'í Faith (and its seat is located at the Bahá'í World Centre), so it's not a branch either.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_World_Centre
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#16Some sort of minimap for navigation would be useful. Also a zoom, the text is a bit small for my eyes. Edit: browser zoom works well. There's a legend in the lower left.
I wouldn't say it does. The very first thing I did was to zoom out, and then understood that I cannot really use it without magnifying glass. So I installed xzoom to find out (unsurprisingly) that I cannot use it as well, because on that scale pixelation is strong enough for text to be unreadable, so the only solution would be to actually implement that feature in js.
Or to have 50" display.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to be incomplete and inaccurate in a lot of ways. For example, Christianity borrows elements of Zoroastrianism and Judaism is actually derived from ancient Babylonian polytheism. Maybe I just didn't see it, but Confucianism seems to be missing too.
> Judaism is actually derived from ancient Babylonian polytheism. That isn't true. At best, and even this is debated, there are some traces, but it's not in the slightest "derived from".
Maybe not derived from, but certainly descended from.
Yahweh was the national god of the Israelites, who were part of the Canaanite polytheistic system. In the context of Yahweh being a warrior deity in a polytheistic system, the phrase "there are no other gods like our god," and also the crusades against neighboring settlements seem to take on more meaning.
Interesting reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
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#18Is Greek / Roman / Norse mythology (basically everything Western that isn't Christianity) not considered religion? Because maybe I'm just blind but I can't seem to find those anywhere in the tree.
It seems to be incomplete and inaccurate in a lot of ways. For example, Christianity borrows elements of Zoroastrianism and Judaism is actually derived from ancient Babylonian polytheism. Maybe I just didn't see it, but Confucianism seems to be missing too.
Confucianism can be found around 9 o'clock on the outer circumference.
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#19As expected, European native beliefs (and their link to hinduism) are not even mentioned.
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#20I checked some random branches and found a lot of errors and inaccuracies. Nice visualization though
Truth. It has “Taoism” mispelled near the root. :-\