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The largest religions in order of size are: Christianity: 2.1 billion Islam: 1.5 billion Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion Hinduism: 900 million Chinese traditional religion: 394 million Buddhism: 376 million primal-indigenous: 300 million African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million Sikhism: 23 million Juche: 19 million Spiritism: 15 million Judaism: 14 million Baha'i: 7 million Jainism: 4.2 million Shinto: 4 million Cao Dai: 4 million Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million Tenrikyo: 2 million Neo-Paganism: 1 million Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand Rastafarianism: 600 thousand Scientology: 500 thousand

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1. Ancient Polytheistic religions

(a) Ancient Greek, Egyptian, and other polytheistic religions

(b) ancient tribal religions

2. Hindu

3. Buddhism broke off of Hinduism

4. Chinese Religions (Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism)

5. Japanese Shintoism

6. Judaism started with Abraham

7. Christianity stemmed off of Judaism years after (which eventually branched into Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy)

8. Islam

9. The Protestant Reformation

10. All those radical new religions, recent stems off existing religions, or cults

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2005 Top 10 ORGANIZED Religions of the World

*Note* relgions such as Chinese or African Traditional Relgions as well as Neopaganism are not reflected in these numbers due to them being considered unorganized**

Christianity 2.1 billion 33.0%

Islam 1.5 billion 21%

Hinduism 900 million 14%

Buddhism 376 million 6%

Sikhism 23 million 0.36%

Judaism 14 million 0.22%

Bahaism 7 million 0.1%

Confucianism 6.3 million 0.1%

Jainism 4.2 million 0.1%

Shintoism 4 million 0.0%

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Adam and Eve fell to Humanism at the The Temptations of the devil, eventually people came back to God with Judaism and then Christianity. The oldest religion from the time of the first sin was humanism, the youngest religion is Jehovah's Witness religion.

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The major world religions are Christianity, Buddism, Hinduuism, Judaism, and Islam.

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