Human being is religious / mystical per se. From the very first moment of our existence, we have belived in something: the sun, the moon, the volcanoes and mountains, the lightning and storms... Those primitive beliefs evolutioned to more complex religious frames. Today we are going to talk about the 5 more important religions in the world, in accordance with number of believers.
It's a religion from India, created in the 15th century (from 1400 to 1500 A.D) About 30 million people are Sikhs. This religion was founded by Guru Nanak. The main thing of it it that there is only one God, benevolent and present in everything. They use meditation as a tool to find God.
It's a religion also created in India, 2.500 years ago. About 320 million people practice it. It was founded by Shiddarta, the first Buda. Buddhism points that we have to be good people in order to get the internal peace. It also uses meditation as a tool for achieving this goal. In Buddhism there is not God.
3.- Hinduism:
About 2.000.000.000 people (2 billion) are muslims (this is how we name islam followers). Islam was founded by Muhammad in 622 AD (that is, 1403 years ago) It is a religion very simmilar to Cristianism: they say that we must be good people, and that there is one only God, named Allah. If you are a good person, you go to heaven.
About 2.400.000.000 people (2.4 billion) are cristians. We all know about Cristianity, because is the most spreaded religion in our country. It was created by Jesus, and it defends that there is one only God, but with some complications (the Trinity, the Saints, the Virgin, etc). Cristianity says that we must be good people. As the majority of religions.
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