Day 21 - Waning Moon - Month 12 - Winter 2348 (Dec 21, 2013)

Wilmington DE, United States

Ethnic Religions are Essence of Humanity

Ethnic people including polytheistic, pantheistic, shamanic, animistic and related indigenous traditions comprise about 25% of the world’s population.  The approximately 1.8 billion ethnic people are spread around every continent of the world.  While this might seem as a sizable fraction, a historical analysis of the change in this statistic tells a different story.  A little over two thousand years ago, prior to the emergence of proselytizing non-ethnic religions and anti-ethnic political ideologies, most of the earth was populated by ethnic people.   Within two millennia, hundreds of ethnic tribes have been made extinct and majority of those who managed to survive the onslaught have been coerced into abandoning the faith of their ancestors.  Today, ethnic people …