Every religion comes about because of its underlying writings, scriptures, texts, documents, in short … its “word”.
Unsurprisingly, the word is always a collection of: fables, made up histories, fictional characters and events, commandments, laws, and speculation about the future. There are two immediate problems for the modern reader: the word is always ancient, and therefore largely useless for modern-day usage, and it is never supported by contemporary sources outside of the religion.
As the ancient nature of the word is a problem for modern readers, the various religions always feel the need to “explain” the word via many additions as the real world evolves around and away from it.
This page (and sub-pages) is a place where you can learn more about the “word” of the various religions, and why that word is always as ridiculous as it is unsupported. All of the links on this page are to other pages on this site.
Three pretty big religions in the world (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) share the first five books of their “word”. Taken together, those five books are called the Pentateuch, and consist of the following:
- The book of genesis
- The book of exodus
- The book of leviticus
- The book of numbers
- The book of deuteronomy
Those first five books contain some major stories:
Christianity continues (after the first five books) with many other books. See the following page for more details: The word according to Christianity.