Did Governments Create the World's Major Religions? | Robert Price | MythVision

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This MythVision conversation explores one of the most important questions about the history of religion: how do small religious movements become major world religions? Dr. Price examines the powerful

relationship between religion, government, culture, warfare, social control, and political authority, arguing that state support played a major role in the expansion of many ancient religious systems.

The discussion moves from Judaism and the ancient concept of the “sacred canopy” to Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Constantine, Theodosius, King Ashoka, and Muhammad. The conversation also explores how conquered peoples sometimes adopted aspects of the religions and rituals of their conquerors.

Derek Lambert and Dr. Price also discuss atheism, religious pluralism, Christian fundamentalism, evangelism, deconstruction, and the difficult relationship between believers and non-believers.

Why did some religions become global movements while others remained small?
Did political power help religion spread?
What happened when Christianity became connected to the state?
And can religion remain powerful after society loses its shared “sacred canopy”?

This conversation challenges conventional assumptions about the origins and expansion of the world's major religions.

Watch until the end for a fascinating discussion about religion, power, atheism, and the forces that shape human societies.


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Who is Robert Price?
Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American theologian and writer, known for arguing against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. He is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center

for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus. Price is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, a group of 150 writers and scholars who study the historicity of Jesus, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist.
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There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, though nearly all of them have regionally based, relatively small followings. Four religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism account for over 77% of the world's population, and 92% of the world either follows one of those four religions or identifies as non-religious, meaning that the vast majority of remaining religions account for only 8% of the population combined.

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