??AngstyThink??

Welcome to the Temple Of Angsty! Some time in the next few months im thinking of starting off my own religious cult. My aim will be to eventually overtake Christianity as the most powerful cult in the world. However, before i do that, i have to do some reasearch. Religons dont just make themselves ya know. They evolve memetically (that might not be a word) over eons and eons, into lean mean money making, mass controlling, mass druging machines. Therefore, this section of AngstyThink, is devoted towards putting some reasearch into the major religions and what makes them tick. Which religions fare best and what aspects of their traditions and beliefs allow this success?


ExistAngst Reviews: Islam.

With all that has been happening in the world of late and all the shit happening with Islam, i thought it might be interesting to stop for a second to look at Islam: the cult right behind christianity in the popularity stakes.

Up untill about the 16th century AD Islam was a nice quiet little religion minding its own business on the arab peninsula and surrounding lands. Now no one knows why, but at sometime around this time, Islam went bad. The worlds Muselis started to wack out and get angry at stuff. They started to fight with their neihbors.
AngstyThink Mark: 4/10


ExistAngst Reviews: ZOROSTRIANISM.

Zorostrianism, is the only religion listed in the Guiness book of records, as being on the verge of extinction. Its not hard to see why. Zorostrianism may have been able to find a niche amoung punters 2 thousand years ago when it was in its heyday in the middle east, but its clear that whoever the git was that planned this shambles of a religion, was not thinking with the future in mind. Mind you though, Zorostrianism, was severely hamstrung in modern times with the widely held myth that Zorostrian monks, shave the testicles of pubesant boys to mark their arival into manhood. Such vicious rumours have severely cutailed the growth of this once proud religion.

On the plus side, although theres not too many plusses, Zorostrianism was obviously doing something right, because both the Koran and the Old Testamanet Bible and to a lesser extent the Vedas, copy wholesale, from Zorostrian teachings.

Look out for Zorostrianism being knocked out of the top 22, some time in the next couple of years.
AngstyThink Mark: 4/10

The Top 22:

1.Christianity: 2 billion
2.Islam: 1.3 billion
3.Hinduism: 900 million
4.Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 900 million
5.Buddhism: 350 million
6.Chinese traditional religion: 225 million
7.primal-indigenous: 190 million
8.Yoruba religion: 20 million
9.Juche: 19 million
10.Sikhism: 18 million
11.Spiritism: 14 million
12.Judaism: 13 million
13.Babi & Baha'i faiths: 6 million
14.Jainism: 4 million
15.Shinto: 4 million
16.Cao Dai: 3 million
17.Tenrikyo: 2.4 million
18.Neo-Paganism: 1 million
19.Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
20.Scientology: 750 thousand
21.Rastafarianism: 700 thousand
22.Zoroastrianism: 150 thousand


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