The word 'religion' can be defined in many ways but it usually involves one or more of the following three things:
1. The worship of a God/s or Goddess/s
2. Guidlines about how behave
3. Answers to life's biggest questions
Since science also seeks to provide answers to life's biggest questions, it sometimes comes into conflict with religion. Therefore, some people belive yhat we must choose between the two. However, other believe that science and religion can both be useful (since science tends to answer the question HOW and religion tends to answer the question WHY).
What is your opinion about this?
I believe that there is more to life than logic. I believe that science is an important part of society and how the earth was made, but I do not believe that science has covered everything. They have not covered the spiritual apect of the world and how it connects us to the world. I believe that there is something after death. I believe that there is a higher power, and I believe in reincarnation.
Early Religion
The earliest kind of religion developement was animism.
Religion In the World
Meanwhile, in another part of the world, the ancient Jewish people started following monotheism (belief in only one God). The part of the Christian bible knwn as the Old Testament tells the story of the Jewish people and their beliefs. Some famous Old Testament characters include Adam (the first man), Noah (who built a boat and saved the animals during a flood), Abraham (the father of the Jewis people), Moses ( who led them out of Egypt) and David (the famous king who defeated the giant Goliath) Many English names today are based on the bible characters like these.
At the same time as the Jews were developing their monotheism, many Greek thinkers were moving away from belief in Gods although ad developing philosophy and science instead. This later paved the way for agnosticism (uncertainty about God or Gods) and atheism (belief in no Gods).
Then about 2000 years ago, a Jewish teacher named Jesus died and some of his followers claimed that he was raised from the dead. These followers eventualy became known as Christians. However, because the culture of that time was dominated by Greek thinking, Christianity (and most of Western thought in general) developed out of a combination of Jewish monotheism and Greek philosophy.
In about 600 AD, an arab named Mohammad claimed to have recieved words directly from God and wrote them down in the Qur'an. he convinced there Arabic people to accept monotheism (like the Jews or Christians) and eventually this gave rise to Islam.
In summary, we can see that all the major world religions share common roots:
