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A colleague drew my attention to this infographic<\/a> which claims to show the evolution of major religious traditions (click through<\/a> to see the whole thing):<\/p>\n

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Some parts strike me as quite bizarre \u2013 Hellenism as a religion, and a precursor of Theosophy while Gnosticism is off on a separate branch.\u00a0Some are probably\u00a0more accurate than some would admit \u2013 Canaanite polytheism as the ancestor of Judaism. Some reflect a view that some might share, but a group itself\u00a0would not \u2013 such as the listing of Sufism as a separate religion from Islam. And some must be deliberately tongue-in-cheek, such as the inclusion of the scientific method and quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n

Had you seen it before? What do you think of it?<\/p>\n

If you are interested in infographics about religion<\/a>, you should also definitely check out one that the\u00a0 National Post<\/em><\/a> shared a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"