Which Is The World's Oldest Religion??????

The oldest of the currently practised organised religions seems to be fairly generally recognised to be Hinduism which can trace its origins back to Dravidianism, estimated to have been practised around 6000 to 3000 BCE and as such predating the Sumerian, Egyptian and Babylonian cultures. Islam must be the youngest of the main religions because it was founded by Muhammad in around 622, though quite a large proportion of its beliefs stem from proto-Judaism. In researching this, I became aware that belief systems have probably existed almost as long as man has been on this earth. It is very hard to say, though, when a belief system becomes a religion.

The oldest known religion is The Dreaming Of the Australian aborigines. It originated in about sixty thousand years ago and is still practised today. The oldest known divinity, to be continuously worshipped, is the Rainbow Serpent which is the creation figure of The Dreaming.

The oldest artifacts found are of a mother and child.. these are believed to be early forms of religion carried into all the lands.. It reminds me of the story of Eden and how it was promised that a rescuer would come and would be "born of a woman".. In the account of Cain and Abel, two religions are revealed.. one was an earth religion, and the other a making amends with god religion, or rather a nulling of man feeling he needs to amend.. Yet ever since, man has always sought to appease the gods.. or supreme power.. - Earth religions are the oldest, but the least organized, at least outwardly (and for now) that is. And after that, I'd have to agree with the first poster who said "Hinduism" is the oldest.

Vedic Hinduism and Gathic Zoroastrianism are roughly the same age. They are the first Organised religious systems, i.e., religious systems with books, clergy, list of authoritative doctrines.

Judaism