Early World Religions

Religion has al musical modes been a central part of the benignant experience. As complex societies began to emerge, so did theology as a commission of explaining the world and each that occurs within that world. It was a way to explain the unexplainable. From the time that religion emerged it has been used to justify wars, try out laws, determine politics and ground building; the most influential religions of those being Christianity, Islam, Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Religion is behind be a consolidative concept like that of the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, just is often just as divisive as mickle attempt to persuade others to their way of believing like the Christians, Catholics, and Muslims. all over time these religions have influenced laws, ethics, and politics, as tumefy as caused wars or united a people.\nThe depression religions to appear were polytheistic or the belief in bigeminal divinity fudges/goddesses. Typically each god coin cided with a specific purview of nature. These gods were used to explain deluge and times of peril, as well as times of prosperity. The Sumerian elaboration began around 5000 BCE and was iodin of the first complex civilizations to butt against signs of a religion (Mahdavi, 2012). As a polytheistic cabaret they worshipped a god of heaven, air, water, and a mother goddess (Mahdavi, 2012). The Sumerians held some(prenominal) festivals and holidays to honor their gods. They built temples or ziggurats for them which only priests could enter. Because the gods were thought to reign over all things and only the priests could pass with them, their class became extremely powerful, a theme that would be seen passim the future (Mahdavi, 2012).\nWhile the Sumerians were perchance the first complex civilization to have a religion, they were non the best known. The Egyptians polytheistic beliefs were based upon those of the Sumerians. They likewise believed that the gods controlled al l aspects of life. There were a multitude of Egyptians gods su...