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Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by hcarvalhoalves »

gillianseed wrote: post #30
madengr wrote: post #22

Nice chart. Glad to be an atheist. Now imagine the man-millenia wasted on all that hocus pocus. Anyway, you are here: http://i.imgur.com/WNkmN.jpg

>Now imagine the man-millenia wasted on all that hocus pocus. my/mine imaginary deity/deities is/are the one true deity/deities, because, er, I say so, and so did my parents! how people can buy into the fairy-tales which is religion has always baffles me, atleast unless you are indoctrinated from a young age and shielded from critical thinking.

You're naive if you think that's all what religion boils down to.

That tree includes Confucianism, for instance. Although it's considered a religion, it's secular and closer to philosophy.

Most religions are also mixed with creation mythologies, which have a bonding function inside cultures and ethnic groups.

So, the `religion` subject is much more complex than a simple pissing contest.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by wbillingsley »

ars wrote: post #14

This 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.

It seems to be attempting to list the church organisations rather than the faiths -- for instance, the Anglicans and Presbyterians have an entry for each country. If you were to list the faiths, you would have something very much smaller.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by acheron »

madengr wrote: post #22

Nice chart. Glad to be an atheist. Now imagine the man-millenia wasted on all that hocus pocus. Anyway, you are here: http://i.imgur.com/WNkmN.jpg

An atheist, a vegan, and a CrossFitter walk into a bar.

I only know because they told everyone within two minutes.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by bennettfeely »

This is interesting, but you would be naive if you think this is in any way comprehensive or accurate.

My religion and main area of knowledge of Catholicism shows a limited number of picked and chosen orders of priests, (i.e. Franciscans, Cistercians, Capuchins). These are not separate religions by any means whatsoever; they are all members of the Catholic faith. They certainly don't belong on a chart that is meant to display different religions and schisms.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by the8472 »

ars wrote: post #13
lqndlwq wrote: post #6

Earlier 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".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh#Later_influen...

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by gonvaled »

acheron wrote: post #33
madengr wrote: post #22

Nice chart. Glad to be an atheist. Now imagine the man-millenia wasted on all that hocus pocus. Anyway, you are here: http://i.imgur.com/WNkmN.jpg

An atheist, a vegan, and a CrossFitter walk into a bar. I only know because they told everyone within two minutes.

Really? How many official atheistic rituals are performed per week? per month? per year? How many atheistic personalities do you see/hear on the radio / television (talking about atheism, not about pizza)? How many atheistic politicians do you know (probably very few, since it is political suicide)? How many times per year is an atheist ringing at your door to tell you the wonders of atheism? (I get several calls per year from the jehova's witness and other groups, trying to convince me - very educately - that their religion is "the good one - tm")

I heard people are going to the church (or synagoge, or mosque, or whatever) every Sunday (Saturday / Friday) (or they should ...), and they are very freely and openly telling everybody how much they believe in their choice of god.

Compared to the publicity with which believers are living their faith, atheist's non-faith is very introvert.

Which is according to the nature of the thing - why would you be talking about your non-beliefs all the time? Basically, we all have so many non-believes (an atheist has only one more than a believer) that there is no material time to talk about them.

Of course whenever an atheist breaks this code of silence (like poor madengr just did above) with a single sentence (not a three hours prayer - mind you!), it clearly proves that atheists are exhibitionists.

All this makes your joke a very stupid joke (since its logic is broken)

EDIT: added more ranting

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by ryan-c »

gtirloni wrote: post #29
ryan-c wrote: post #23

The site may go down entirely for a moment... This site belongs to my friend Alex Fink. Edit: Mods, please adjust link to point to http://000024.org/religions_tree/ I've done an emergency move of the images to another server that's better able to handle the load and re-written the image links (I host his site).

You could also host it on CloudFlare for free.

We just made changes to run it through cloudflare, but that'll take some time to go through. It's on a faster server in the meantime.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by monk_e_boy »

acheron wrote: post #33
madengr wrote: post #22

Nice chart. Glad to be an atheist. Now imagine the man-millenia wasted on all that hocus pocus. Anyway, you are here: http://i.imgur.com/WNkmN.jpg

An atheist, a vegan, and a CrossFitter walk into a bar. I only know because they told everyone within two minutes.

I often wonder if God is up with technology and is up in heaven watching peoples twitter feeds, facebook and forum comments saying to himself, "Hm, that acheron is being too christian today. Buck your ideas up young man."

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Post by [deleted] »

bennettfeely wrote: post #34

This is interesting, but you would be naive if you think this is in any way comprehensive or accurate. My religion and main area of knowledge of Catholicism shows a limited number of picked and chosen orders of priests, (i.e. Franciscans, Cistercians, Capuchins). These are not separate religions by any means whatsoever; they are all members of the Catholic faith. They certainly don't belong on a chart that is meant t…

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