World Religions Explained (Full Series)
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:27 - Hinduism
00:28:48 - Buddhism
00:50:31 - Chinese Syncretism
00:56:28 - Judaism
01:33:29 - Islam
Note: Christianity is not covered in this video as we have a separate video on the family tree of Christian denominations, which you can watch here:
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Charts & Narration by Matt Baker
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Audio editing by Ali Shahwaiz
Theme music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. Available from incompetech.com
Note: This video is a just a repost of all my previous world religion videos into one supercut.
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Thanks for letting me know so that I don't watch it twice. (I might sometime.)
26:35
Map of india shown here is wrong😡
Atleast dotted lines are expected in disputed area
@@revanthreddy7878 I'm not going to show every single disputed region in the world on a tiny map that is meant simply to show which world religions are followed where. What I've used is the standard UN map.
Already bought thx. Excited for looking at it for hours 😂😮
Love the videos and enjoy all the work you put into these videos!!
Excited for this video. And I love to see the diversity of nations in the comments. Thanks Matt! ❤
This is an excellent program. Your work is always so clearly presented and well thought out! Thank you for all the attention you put into creating these
I have been teaching comparative religions internationally for about 15 years, and working in the field for over 20. This is the most complete and accurate infographics attempting to do this I have seen yet. With one specific caveat: the name of the Catholic Church is "Catholic Church" (not Roman). The name of the Orthodox Church is {Eastern} Orthodox Church (not Greek). Please, please, please run the next print corrected.
I think Matt's point is rather to show the process of development "what came out of what" than to show a current day structure. You can deffinitly say that all eastern orthodox churches are of hellenistic origin. But I get your point that "greek orthodox" would be the wrong term. I'd use something like "byzantine orthodox churches" maybe ? And than add all the orthodox churches we have nowadays below. Like greek, russian, romanian, ukrainian etc.
And about "Roman catholic"...it's actually a used term again. The pope uses it, you can find it in official Vatican papers and even some countries got that as religious affiliation in their passports. You can also say that all catholic churches AND all other christian churches came out of the roman catholic church. But I do get your point that not all catholic churches are roman catholic and that the modern Roman catholic church is just one of the catholic churches...however...the Vatican would see that very differently^^ Kinda hard to show all that in a flow chart to be fair.
@@fydofire Certainly to Matt's point, which is well appreciated. But calling a church by its proper name is just good form - and more accurate. Using "Roman" for Catholic or "Greek" for Orthodox, unless you specifically and only mean the local churches of Rome and Greece respectively, is inaccurate. No matter that some people not from those churches like to use those terms for their own personal theological preferences, it is rather easy to check the official name of a Church and get it right, by looking at authoritative documents. There is no reference, for example, to "Roman Catholic" in the documents of Vatican II, the Catechism, the Codes of Canon Law, or any papal encyclical in roughly 75 years, and even then it usually meant only the Latin Church. That's the official Vatican position - "Catholic", not "Roman Catholic".
The reason why the Roman Catholic Church is referred to as "Roman" is that it is headed by the Bishop of Rome and they are in communion with him. In fact all Nicene Christians are _by definition_ part of the one one holy catholic and apostolic church *ἁγία καθολικὴ καὶ ἀποστολικὴ ἐκκλησία* . The Holy See cannot lay claim to that name. Therefore, we can call those in communion with the Bishop of Rome many things, but _Catholic Church_ is very wrong.
@@revcrussell I understand that is why some people - mostly Anglicans - use the term incorrectly, but it remains incorrect. The church of Rome is just one of over 3000 in the Catholic communion. The Latin Church, of which the pope is primate/patriarch, is just one of 24. The Roman Rite is just one of several Rites. No more can the Catholic Church be reduced to Roman than the Orthodox to Greek or the Anglican to Canterbury or the Lutherans to Wittenberg.
AS A CHILD I ATTENDED THE LATIN MASS AT OUR ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, ST. RAPHAEL IN N.O., LA. AND MY GREEK BROTHER-IN-LAW MARRIED MY SISTER IN A GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH, SAME CITY. CERTAINLY THESE THINGS WERE REAL, AND I THINK THEY STILL EXIST.
CLARIFICATION OF SPECIFIC BRANCHES IS ENTERTAINED ONLY BY THOSE THAT CARE. AND THOSE THAT DON'T CARE, NEVER CLARIFY OR KNOW.
Man, 2h, I love it, but will need to come back to it later, love your videos.
Nice one Matt! I need to get this chart.
been a while. glad ur back sir
I wonder why we never call the Hindu pantheon as an Indian Syncretism. It's almost a mixture of theist (monotheistic, polytheistic, quasitheistic) and atheistic (e.g. charvaka, buddhism influences, etc.). It's hard to explain to people when my religion is not really a religion but a mixture of ideas of spirituality and philosophy.
its clearly a religion, actually a very strict religion with relationship & connections among Gods, and that has God worship in the very center with strict ritualistic order! the only thing is you will get what you deserve to get no matter you worship or not, in this life or the next depending on your Karma.
bro dont be fooled pls go check out on the video (my ashray) akhir krishna hai kon beccause there isonly one god and thats krishna and it is proved bro pls if you want to know about our dharma as a hindu brother i am telling you this
Basically pooping on the street
@@ayzmalo5553 better than using paper to clean yourself up lmao
@@oma_goonerlmfao what no, this is Bhakti. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Hinduism is a decentralized collection of philosophies and the only reason it’s labelled as such is due to British colonialism
this was very very VERY insightful. thank you for your efforts they’re greatly appreciated
Good work - thank for making these. Would you consider making a timeline of world cultures/religions creation stories/myths from the first recorded to date?
I love, love, LOOOOVE these videos! I would absolutely love to see you create one of these that focused on Yoga and also the different forms of meditation and how they differ and originated from various forms of Hinduism and yoga.
Love these learning opportunities
This has been hugely successful and useful, thanks so much bro! You are a genius
Cant wait for the Christianity portion especially the esoteric religions portion of this chart! Great job Matt!
I think it would have made sense to indicate that the "Japanese Syncretism" is also alive and well in Japan, with a combination of Confusionism, Shintoism and Buddhism. It would also have made some sense to include Mesoamerican religions. While they are for the most part extinct, they were incredibly impactful not only in the culture and architecture of the Americas, but some elements of them where incorporated into Catholicism, like All Saints day being placed closely to same time the Aztecs celebrated the Day of the Dead or the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Amazing video, thank you for putting this together.
That is SO awesome! I’m buying!
Sir, it was a pleasure watching the video. The effort is appreciated.
i really like your videos and how you put a lot of nuance and effort into the subject matter.
The charts truly are incredible. This was a very lovely comprehensive overview.
Amazing work ,thank you 👏
Hope you make a more in-depth video about Chinese Syncretism! It would only be fair since you made a video for Judaism despite being way smaller
Big fan of your work.
Keep it up brother.
Good luck to you.
great video love it!
An amazing well researched and put together piece of work that i hope garners more attention
Great content coverage of major beliefs and practices in religion
Can't wait to see those videos for the Christianity and esotericism sections on this chart!
From the description: "Note: Christianity is not covered in this video as we have a separate video on the family tree of Christian denominations, which you can watch here: (Video-Link)"
@@PrinzDerNarrenthat's just a composite of his series. He suggested a video for the simplified version in this chart, as well as the esotericism section.
I appreciate the analytical rather neutral approach to describing eastern religions! especially would love to see an in depth video on chinese syncretism! thanks for your work 🙏
Thank you for doing this
Sikhism has 25 to 30 million followers with big populations in India, Canada amd the UK.
Fun fact: Sikhs constitute a higher percentage of the population in Canada than India
That was a nice revision..... loved the narration, graphics, categorization and the detailed justification wherever required.....nice job and smart play...
17:00 minutes in, very interesting.
Looked to see how long this video is. Need to watch in multi parts.
This is just a bookmark for me.
Excellent analysis and history. Thank you for this lesson
Thanks for this video
Amazing amount of bravery to take on this flammable topic. I look at the comment section wondering what people will say and its a mix of “thank you” , “Thank you But”, and “but thank you.” This took ALOT of work to compile…Thank you.
Super cool!
Yay excited to watch this video.
Thanks so much for the good information in this video
Nice video.
Thank you!!
Please do a video on language family trees
A tiny thing about Confucianism is that in Chinese, it's not named after Confucius but it's called 儒家 where the word 儒 simply means scholar or learned man
Could you create a video exploring the concept of combining all religions into a unified belief system and discussing how such a religion could function? I am interested in understanding the potential implications and possibilities of merging diverse religious traditions into a single cohesive practice. I'm curious to see what you can come up with!
You can't really combine all the religions because their foundational components are contradictory. For example the foundational component of Christianity is that God came to our world in human form to give us the opportunity to be lifted from sin. The foundational component of Islam is that Muhammad was the final prophet who delivered the perfect word of God (who said Jesus was not God).
You cannot even be partially following either religion without accepting those concepts and both cannot simultaneously be true. To remove those concepts would not be to combine the religions but to strip them down so arbitrarily that it would be insulting to suggest a connection to either. And that's just two of them.
I love your every videos brother from Bangladesh.
you should make a another supercut the covers the other smaller/extinct religions that weren’t covered in-depth like zoroastrianism and the druzes
Great Work..just wondering why you didn’t add Sikhism other than a very brief mention?
Your video editing and graphics are super captivating and of high quality! What software do you use for video editing and the graphics of the charts?
Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
It will take me years to absorb this amount of knowledge
From the U.K. I bought your World Religions Family Tree and your Christian Denominations Family Tree just recently. Very, very satisfied with them both and they look just great on my wall. At around 40 US$ each they're superb value for money. Of course, using the free RUclips Video Downloader I've recorded the accompanying videos for your voice narration to further enhance the wall charts. Great job!
Where did you buy them? $40 each is way too high. We sell them for $25.
@@UsefulCharts- That’s probably including shipping costs.
Even with shipping to the UK, it wouldn't be that high.
Oh cool, some light viewing!
16:30 anglosaxon Hengist & Horsa. Hengst in German is an adult male horse (or camel or zebra). Just a FYI.
Very impressive work, you have a new follower..
A quick note on Mahayana's bodhisattva ~ god thing. While it is true to some Mahayana branches, in many of them, such as in some Zen varieties, this is not very accurate. In these varieties, these branches are more similiar to Theravada (in that aspect). Amazing video!
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Thanks, NIce Presentation Sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Does anybody know if there is a source list or place to find this in-depth information comes from? I'm really interested in digging in deeper to world religions, but I have no diea where this channel gets any of this stuff!
Your charts are very good, AND importantly you include ( previously I incorrectly said "BUT you exclude" ) the religions of Australian indigenous people and other similar groups. Religions that are much older than those you deal with.
They are on the chart as well.
Mat.. my sincere apology.. I missed them. I was triggered by your comment in your video describing the oldest religions.. would it be better to have the African , Australian, etc. religions at the top of the chart to signify their age as coming before the other world religions.. but again, I'm so sorry for my incorrect assertion.. love your work.!
@@UsefulCharts I wanted to ask if Sikhism comes from Sufi Islam and Vedanta Hinduism as well? You don’t have to add it there I just wanted to know if Sikhism came from them too.
Much Thanks and Love the Chart
You should do a video who would be Lord Protector of the UK today essentially who is Thomas Cromwell’s successor
My four year bachelor's degree distilled into a single two hour video. 😅. Fantastic!
Is there a book or transcript for this info. I'd love to buy it.
Matt, the poster looks cool but I noticed a mistake that needs correcting: You guys made it seem like Roman paganism comes from Greek paganism , and although I get there are a lot of similarities and syncretic borrowings between the two, the more accurate approach would be to have "Roman" paganism proper come from either: 1.European Paganism directly as its own branch, 2.Italic paganism *and* Greek paganism, or more accurately, 3. not-unlike Christianity, have a bunch of thin arrows protruding from Germanic, Celtic, Egyptian, Persian (specifically Mithraism) and Greek Paganisms. Given how influential Roman Paganism was in the development of Christianity, the "Greek --> Roman" line you guys have in there is a pretty big blunder.
Still, the poster looks awesome! I'm just hoping you guys can correct that bit.
Will keep it mind for the next printing.
Much appreciation from Lebanon. Impactful content. ❤❤
You’re incredible.
WOW THE AMOUNT OF STUDYING IT TOOK TO PUT THIS TOGETHER!
I think you should also cover the simplified version of Christianity family tree
Thank you for this video, I wear my star of David with pride these days,
for my family which perished in WW2. God Bless.
It is unfortunate that religions from the Americas are so much less known and understood than ones from Europe and Asia. I don't suppose you have any videos covering them?
I would like to make some corrections on the categorization of Hinduism.
Yoga is normally categorised into karma yog, bhakti yog and gyan yog
And karma yoga and gyan yoga might not necessary lie under Astika
They might be aethiest too
Gyan yoga are seekers they might not believe in those deities they are similar to Buddha actually
There's no exact categorization tbh so you are not wrong... What I'm saying is that it is not always the case
Nice analysis btw
Religions: My way or hiway
Hinduism: All attempts to understand the supreme must be respected.
I'd love to learn more about those "new age" religions that try to mix "science" with their beliefs like the christian spiritism
Could you please do House Speaker Mike Johnson's family tree? He's big in American politics right now
*Nice video Usful Charts...* I just can't help but wonder why didn't you make a table/ section dedicated for 🪯Sikhism - that has 2 x twice the following of Judaism?
_(as it too has a lot of parts from the founder Guru Nanak via 10 more Gurus to the Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh empire, Punjab partition & Khalistan)_
Especially as a 🇬🇧Londoner, I've went to schools with 1/4 Sikh population for instance, but never even met a single Jewish student ever in comparison.
I believe in your home country 🇨🇦Canada too - there are under 1% Jews compared to over 2% Sikhs!
_...and am not even a SIkh myself btw ;)_
Well, for one thing, Sikhism does not have as many divisions as other religions. The vast majority of Sikhs simply follow the dominant branch. It also hasn't been around as long and hasn't produced other spin-off religions like Judaism has. Finally, my main target audience for my posters is actually the US, where Judaism is the second largest religion.
@@UsefulCharts I see…makes sense 👍
According to "2020 PRRI Census of American Religion" Christians make up 70% of the US, 23% are unaffiliated, and Jews are tied with Muslims, Buddhists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Latter-day Saints at 1%.
(The last two being categorized as Christian by the study, I included to demonstrate the diversity of religions tied for 3rd in the US.)
Edit: And also, as I've said before, since the whole thing is informational/educational, shouldn't the emphasis in the target country be that which is least well-known, not that which is most common?
@@UsefulCharts but it could have been explained in the same away as Jainism
All man-made religions are basically the same....do good, don't do bad and hope to achieve salvation. But God's ways are not man's ways. God sent His Son to achieve salvation for us. Eternal live and the forgiveness of sins is a free gift to all who believe in Jesus Christ and His sacrificial death, burial and resurrection. (John 3:16) (Romans 5:8) 🙂
Question. Is there a connection between Taoism and Chan?
Woooooooh 2 hours!
I live in the Southeastern Untied States (Tennessee). The "Bible belt".
I'm an agnostic. When people ask my why, and I begin to explain how religions simply evolve from other religions and there doesn't seem to be any point in which there truly was a sudden divine revelation, this really triggers them and they insist that Elohim came first and refuse to acknowledge it as a fusion of El and YHWH.
*GODDAMMMNN!!*
That's a lot of information to assimilate 😱
You begin at the foot of an open door. In regard to "Christianity" consider starting with The Krystic Template. And do note the spelling- it's significant. Cheers!
Curiosity question, why isn't Shinto listed?. It's one of the largest religions in Japan, and from a a quick fact check around 48% of Japan are Shinto so Approx. 90m people, more than Sikhism and Judaism combined
Because he doesn't know a lot about it. Just look at the Chinese religion section.
Also, Shintoism doesn't have the global influence Judaism does.
~~Just wanted to point out that you left in the line about leaving a link to your Mahabharata Family Tree chart video in the description, but the link isn't there.~~
Edit: He fixed it.
Because He is absolutely clueless about dharam and he is labeling dharam as religion which is absolutely wrong. People need to understand dharam of East has nothing to do with abrahmic religions. And these intellectuals never even tries to understand dharam. There is no concept of 'The God' in dharmic cultures. According to dharmic teachings the creater is residing in each and every being of earth, creation and creater are one and same thing whereas in religion there is some God sitting up somewhere and dictating humans how to live. So how can anyone compare these religions and dharma at all. There is no concept of prophets in Dharam but anyone can know itself in and out. Religion is believing and dharam is seeking. These are two opposite ways of life. There is no comparison of religion and dharam at all. You follow commands and dharmic people seek life.
@@Manjaswal1 Different people have different defining characteristics for what they consider a religion. The terms you apply to it aren't common in the scholasticism of world religions. I'm not so fussed about this part.
That said, I do wish more Westerners who try to teach about Hinduism had a better philosophical understanding of it so they didn't try to teach it as if it were a Western religion. For example, it's common to talk about _trimurti_ and their consorts (without understanding that the "wife" of a deva is that deva's _power/śakti,_ i.e. they are both aspects of the same) as if that is the most important point of distinction between us.
It's like they think we disagree on "which god is the most powerful" instead of "different Hindus use different names for the Supreme, without disagreeing on what it is in essence." They also misunderstand the role of a deva as the personhood of that deva.
But, IMO, one of the things that most distinguishes various Hindus is metaphysics. For example "monism vs dualism": Bhedabheda/Dvaitādvaita, Advaita & Shuddadvaita, Vishishtadvaita, Dvaita, and Acintya Bheda Abheda.
I think that _marga_ are individualized instead of proscribed by the larger community also confuses Westerners.
To really describe all the variation in Sanatana Dharma you need a multi-dimensional matrix, not just a simple table. So, most people just skip the confusing parts as if they aren't important for understanding.
@@RubelliteFae exactly they skip that because they don't wish to learn about as it is not fitting in the small box of thoughts. And what does that ism means? If you can explain it to me. Why it's christianity and not Christian ism if there is Hinduism? Let me explain it in brief according to dharam( which has nothing to do with religion) creater and creation is one and the same thing but according to religion the creater The God is different from creation and that that God has a purpose for the creation but Dharam says it's just a play which is repeated. Shakti is feminine and shiva is masculine and they are the same thing. It's not that hard to understand if one really wants to know. But maybe rigidness of belief that don't allow a believer to even accept that there may be some other logic to the creation. Seeking is opposite to believing and when we have no logical answer to something we tend to believe it. My way or high way is what today the meaning of religion where if we can't answer to a question chop off the questioner and this is what we are witnessing today. But if we don't want to putt some effort to understand the other person we should not label that person also to our definition. I just want to say to say to all the abrahmic scholars that please don't tie dharam with the rope of religion. They should only focus on religion if dharam is not there cup of tea. Religion has a God and dharam is a Godless cultures and it's not very difficult understand according to me
@@Manjaswal1 I think it's normal for people to purposefully overlook that which they find confusing & overwhelming.
As for -ism, I think it's because "X-ism" means "taking the X stance" or the "taking X side of the debate." For most of the West's history Christianity was the only thing permissible, so there was only the Christian view and "everything else." So there was no reason to call it an -ism back then and that simply persists today. That's just a guess though. Certainly it's different in different langages.
You said, "according to religion the creater The God," but that's only based on your specific definition of religion, which as I said academia doesn't use the same definition you are. Personally, I think since "religion" has so many different definitions I try to just not use the term at all. Also, not all Hindus agree with your stance that "creater and creation is one and the same thing." So, you are taking a position in the name of Hinduism that not all Hindus take.
The point is that we all have biases and recognizing these helps to understand why people have the thoughts & behaviours they do. (For example, understanding the history of the West's "exoticism" of the rest of the world [and lack of incentives to do otherwise] helps explain why even today with the world more interconnected than ever, Westerners still fundamentally don't understand or misunderstand various Eastern philosophies.)
You also said, "it's not very difficult understand according to me." I'm willing to bet that you grew up in a culture in which dharmic thought is above 5% of the population. In other words, of course it's simple for you. However, in the US Hindus are ~0.5% of the population. So, perhaps it's healthier to be glad about attempts of Westerners to learn more, like this video, even when they don't go deep enough and fundamentally misunderstand the content & purpose of it.
And, though it's perfectly reasonable for a person to wish to be understood (or better understood), we are not evangelical. Other people's mistakes aren't ultimately my responsibility or duty. My focus should be on my own development.
@@RubelliteFae sorry but all the dharmic people who know their culture creation is no different then creator, and I am excluding all the Indians who are inspired by Western influence, that's why they will bend down to trees, rivers, ants, sun,moon and what not because for them source of creation is there in everything. Left liberal people from dharmic background are excluded. And how we say dharam has X sided view of anything when inclusiveness is the nature of dharmic people?
Excellent perspective between Jews and Christians and what we really believe/do
What about animistic / earth-centered religions?
58:10 i thought that scripture 3:16 said something about someone whooping some ass, is that really right?
Here before 10 minutes
i noticed you mentioned scandal in the hindu section regarding gurus but not the other religions, which have also had scandal issues. reason???
I mention several such scandals in the Christianity video.
@@UsefulCharts i missed that, thank you for the reply. i have also seen quite a few youtube videos about abuse in some ultra orthadox jewish sects
There are approximately 5500 being practiced in the world today wow amazing number.
And now the next video should be all tribal religions from South America, Oceania, and Africa
I know I clicked on this because I wanted to learn but I wasn't expecting my eyes to glaze over this heavily.
You left out the Gandhāran Buddhist texts - they are the oldest Buddhist texts.
We love our Jewish brothers and sisters
Lots of love from India 🇮🇳🕉️❤️🔯🇮🇱
Protect your country at any cost.....
Can't wait for the escotericism video!
Where is Pastafarian?
oh and there is one country which has a Hindu religion, though small community, but very conservative and distinguished, which is Bali in Indonesia. About 4.6 million people.
@33:18 How to live a better life starter pack....
I would love to the see the countries as barcodes instead of solid colors showing only the most popular religion
Very informative! Have a question
BC means before Christ. What is BCE means? 47:53
Before Christ existed, which means everything before Christianity was created
It means before common era - BCE was created for non-Christian groups that do not worship Jesus.
@@chitrali3115 Wong, it means Before Common Era or Before Current Era.
@@smileyShiiZniTZ Oh okay, I was told that by a Christian lol
@@chitrali3115BC stands for “Before Christ” so that may be why you got confused. “BCE” is basically the same thing but secularized to “Before Common Era”
I am afraid the Chinese part is full with mistakes.
Have you done any research into the Greek Buddhists?
@@Manjaswal1 the school of Buddhism I belong to, the Kwan Um School, we don’t care what you believe, we care about practice. Practicing dharma is the most important.
@@davidmendoza1300 @davidmendoza1300 that's what I said dharam don't care in believing and you are doing your practice to attain and achieve moksha and not because you are commanded to do so. This believing in somebody sent by some God sitting upthere is nonsensical notion. Because you believe something only because you don't know what it is so easy way to escape is create some fairytale and believe in it. That's what i said
"Religion" is a very problematic word for every so-called religion. Unlike what you claim, for most "religions" the important thing is practice, not belief. Really, only Christianity is hyper focused on belief. So don't get so caught up on my use of the word religion. It's just a commonly used umbrella term that means different things in different contexts. It's also very clear that you didn't even watch the section on Hinduism. Because the very first thing I explain is that most "Hindus" don't consider Hinduism a religion but rather a Dharma. So, I made your point for you. I also explain both the traditional view of the origin of Hinduism according to Hindus as well as the secular view. So stop making false assumptions about me. I happened to have lived in South Asia for 10 years and have learned Hinduism and Buddhism from the people who practice them, not from Western books.
@@UsefulCharts I appreciate all of your work and I do believe it’s very accurate and well thought out. I just wish you went into more detail about the schools of zen. Soto vs Rinzai. I don’t believe there was mention of Thích Nhất Hạnh or other famous zen masters. But don’t get me wrong, it’s a very good overall presentation.
Based on the thumbnail im guessing this is just mainstream world religions?
What about ancient American religions ?
There is no single books that equals the Bible for Hinduism so how can they go to their book for answers?