How religion spread around the world

[Zapper]

 

[Varunastra]

Proud to be a follower of the oldest surviving major religion proud to be Hindu!

 

[Joe1351]

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come[Matthew 24:14]

 

[Cherub786]

Proud to be a follower of the oldest surviving major religion proud to be Hindu!

Hinduism is not the oldest surviving or continuously practiced religion. Rig Veda is roughly 3 thousand year old text. What you call Hinduism has been steadily evolving since then, and the modern manifestation of it as is commonly practiced is a fairly recent development. For example, none of the popular Hindu "gods" today like Ram and Krisna are even mentioned in the Vedas.

 

[Reichsmarschall]

The rise of green is almost a miracle

 

[Daghalodi]

So Glad my ancestors chose Islam over Hinduism.

 

[Varunastra]

Hinduism is not the oldest surviving or continuously practiced religion. Rig Veda is roughly 3 thousand year old text. What you call Hinduism has been steadily evolving since then, and the modern manifestation of it as is commonly practiced is a fairly recent development. For example, none of the popular Hindu "gods" today like Ram and Krisna are even mentioned in the Vedas.

Yes Hinduism has been evolving but the truths always there. Hinduism doesn't have a single authority like a book or prophet that you can put a date on. We call our religion Sanatana Dharma or the eternal religion. The concept of Brahman has always been there, everything around you and yourself are part of Brahman.
Bydway I just remembered, I think threads discussing religion are not allowed.

 

[Cherub786]

Yes Hinduism has been evolving but the truths always there. Hinduism doesn't have a single authority like a book or prophet that you can put a date on. We call our religion Sanatana Dharma or the eternal religion. The concept of Brahman has always been there, everything around you and yourself are part of Brahman.
Bydway I just remembered, I think threads discussing religion are not allowed.

I'm just fact checking your claim that Hinduism is the oldest religion.
Vedic were orally transmitted and weren't written down until the Gupta dynasty.

Compare that with the oldest surviving fragments that contain writings from the Torah, like the two silver Ketef Hinnom scrolls, that are dated to the late 7th century BCE.

 

[Varunastra]

I'm just fact checking your claim that Hinduism is the oldest religion.
Vedic were orally transmitted and weren't written down until the Gupta dynasty.

Compare that with the oldest surviving fragments that contain writings from the Torah, like the two silver Ketef Hinnom scrolls, that are dated to the late 7th century BCE.

You are right, Hinduism was orally spread for much of it's history and that is proven. The dates of it's origin are based on various factors like the cultures that practised, etc. and are estimates. But one thing is certain that much of our religious history in the subcontinent can be credited to Hinduism and is widely believed to be the world's oldest major religion in the East and the West.

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Vedic belief was totally different from hindusim

 

[Varunastra]

Vedic is totally different from hindusim

Really bruh?

 

[Indos]

The rise of green is almost a miracle

Yup, miracle, we beat Rome and Persian and now Persian are Muslim and Constantinopel is ours

Muslim countries are exist in whole part of the world, other great power is still part of Abrahamic religion.

Even now we have Bosnia and Albania and Turkey is basically European as well.

Central Asian has also been liberated from USSR

 

[El Sidd]

Sindhu religion seem to have her march West hampered by the mountains. The variant of this Sindhu religion did spread to Indonesia and Africa via the sea. Its expansion to Middle East was halted when the Elephants found the territory impassable.

 

[Zapper]

Vedic belief was totally different from hindusim

and how is that!!

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Really bruh?

and how is that!!

Yes, at most what can be said is current hinduism is inspired by vedics but is no where near it in practice nor in belief.
The ancient vedic belief came from Andronovo culture and its precedent cultures in steppes(upper west Asia) and came to declining indus valley era with the slow migration process over 100s of years.
Vedics believed in many deities but their main god was a sky god. ram shiva vishnu etc. werent their gods.. Further more vedics did not believe in Karma but they believed in Afterlife. There are mass graves in Pakistan from that era unearthed . They never cremated their dead like hindus do today, nor they held in high regards the identifiers like cow other items which hindus do today .It did not have any caste system. No excavations point to any hindu god you worship.


Vedic religion changed over time into Brahmanism ( 800BCE---200BCE) which was again very different from contemporary Hinduism. It adopted a lot of new things as it spread outside the indus valley all the way upto eastern end of ganges. The non-Vedic indo-aryan sramana traditions came into being. This is when we started seeing temples, dot head sculptors. Sramna traditions gave birth to new concepts like Jainism and later Buddhism. The gods were still not shiva vishnu, ganesh or ram until Indo-Scythians attacked Ganges,, and local brahmans disowned their post-vedic deities and adopted gods of local Australasian people. This was when the Smrata tradition was born and starts the era of classic Hinduism (200 BC--1000AD) which is much closer than the hinduism you practice today as this is when all the hindu denominations were born. Dating of your oldest hymns is subject to speculation as they were only word of mouth until the classic era when they were put down as record. Most of which you chant but dont understand. What you call Devas like indra are closest to the vedic sky god but hindus dont worship it. Therefore its a unanimous agreement among scholars that vedic belief is different from contemporary hinduism.

This video in OP misrepresents the early vedic era as hinduism