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The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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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.

There's a similar thing going on with other traditions -- with Eastern Orthodoxy, a lot of the various national jurisdictions (Russian, Greek, etc) are listed out separately even though (most) of them are in full communion with one another.

It is cool to see all the "branches" laid out like this but it does lend itself to presenting more divisions than are actually there because that's what we naturally think of when we see a tree structure.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

#62

As expected, European native beliefs (and their link to hinduism) are not even mentioned.

Im interested in this link between hinduism and European native beliefs. A quick google search didn't lead to anything authoritative. Do you know where more info could be found?

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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post #49

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(I am a friend of the author and host the site for him) Sources were cited, the submitter deep-linked. A redirect is now in place to the page that has more information. Edit, for clarity: * 000024.org is owned by my friend, Alex Fink * The 000024.org website is hosted on one of my servers, along with a few other static sites belonging to friends. I have been doing this for free as a favor to those friends for many ye…

You should rephrase to be a little more careful about who the creator of the image is. (at least, if I understand correctly, you are friends with the person hosting the jpg of the image that was extracted from the pdf that had the image that was pieced together from the original). edit: You've made an edit, but you missed what I meant. Alex Fink is not really an author here where the point of the link is the image, h…

I didn't miss what you meant, I just didn't want to remove the part of my comment that you were talking about because then someone reading your comment might be confused.

I've been a little scatterbrained due to commenting while trying to get the bandwidth usage under control (sorted now), and I apologize for anything unclear in my comments here.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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post #46

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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.

It also makes it a fairly fuzzy target, since at at any time someone might invoke but does not apply to , therefore it's not really an argument against religion per se and i dismiss it entirely Exhaustive, lawyer-proof arguments are fairly tedious. Obviously some generalizations and shortcuts are taken. The "my imaginary deity" argument was (hopefully) meant as criticism regarding institutionalized denial of truth to…

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Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

#66
post #42

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Based on your response I think the joke was actually critically perfect. You feel hook line and..

Sorry, I must be dense, I do not get it

The joke was that atheists (along with the others listed) are inclined towards outspoken rants at everyone. You responded with an outspoken rant to the joke.

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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>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.

If it doesn't make any unverifiable claims about the supernatural, then by all means remove it from the "religions" category and add it to "philosophy".

Re: The World Religions Tree (huge visualization)

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It is astonishingly bizarre that this so called tree focuses only on a small number of recent religions and their sects and orders.

There are thousands of religions not represented, most significantly older than the oldest concrete points on this graph.

I do recognize though that this focuses on fairly modern religions of the last two millennia. Still, what a small, narrow, and uninteresting group of beliefs that is.

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