what is the importance of world religions? EMERGENCY?

when the anti-christ take over he will set up a one world religion to deceive us and to stear us away from Christ

It's called the 'Homework Help' section.

...Most likely...there will be something "undiscovered" we've yet to discover as a species....guaranteed...but I seem to "discover" something everyday that's new...just little stuff...but it's little and new.....and I discovered it....I spent 2 years, everyday, (and a good few nights) in a gigantic woods discovering almost every old and new pathway in and out of it...it spans miles...but I reckon I know everyway into and out of it now and all the secret paths too that no one appears to have trodden in a long,long time and some of them, never, cos I made them myself.......I've left my "mark" on several landmarks within it and always find my way out again...it was my dogs favourite place to be cos they could just be free...but when the general public invaded...we lost that place.(should've kept my mouth shut!)..but we've found a new "unused" or at least for a long time, anyway,forest to "discover" and its just all another beginning to us....

Religion provides its users with moral laws, ethics, a way of life, a life stance, and connection to the supernatural, sacred, or divine.

World religions

Historical notions
The concept of "world religion" is historically based on a subjective perception of temporal or theological importance, usually from a Western, "Christian" (or at least "Abrahamic") perspective.[citation needed]

Early Christian scholars, the earliest known classifiers of major religions, recognized two "proper" religions, Christianity and Judaism, besides heretical deviations from Christianity, and idolatrous relapse or paganism. Islamic theology recognizes Christians and Jews as "People of the Book" rather than idolaters, however, Christians are criticized for believing in Christ as God incarnate, rather than considering Christ as one prophet and/or messenger along with others (especially Muhammad in particular). The Christian view long classified Islam's rejection of Christ's divinity as one heresy among others. The concept of the Trinity is often seen as a fundamental conflict between Islam and some interpretations of Christianity to this day.[citation needed]

Attempts to identify and classify additional religions expanded during the Enlightenment however, and by the 19th century Western scholars considered the five "world religions" to be Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. These remain the classic "world religions."[citation needed]


[edit] Modern classifications
Modern classifications typically list major religious groups by number of adherents, not by historical or theological notability. Most dramatically, this affects Judaism, which holds the position of "world religion" as the foundational tradition of the "Abrahamic" group, but which in terms of adherents ranks below 0.25% of world population, behind Sikhism. [1]

The remaining four classic world religions, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, are the largest contemporary religions by far. They each have more than 300 million adherents, more than ten times the number of the next largest organized religion (Sikhism, ca. 19 million per the Christian Science Monitor source cited below).

A person is typically considered an adherent or follower of a particular religion if the person would self-identify the religion as the primary characterization of their religious perspective[2]. Similarly, a religion is typically considered to fall within a larger religious category (e.g., Protestantism falling within Christianity) if the followers of the religion self-identify that classification as appropriate.

An example of a modern listing of "world religions" is that of the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, listing twelve "long established, major world religions, each with over three million followers", alphabetically:

Bahá'í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Vodou.
The Adherents.com list of "twelve classical world religions" is nearly identical, but replaces Vodou with Zoroastrianism.

The "World's Major Religions" list published in the New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference[3] omits Vodou and Zoroastrianism, as well as Jainism and Sikhism, but lists the Eastern Orthodox Church, Protestantism and Roman Catholicism as separate religions.

The Christian Science Monitor, in a 1998 article "Top 10 Organized Religions in the World," provides a listing of the largest "organized religions" [4]:

# Religion Number of Adherents
1 Christianity 1.9 billion
2 Islam 1.1 billion
3 Hinduism 781 million
4 Buddhism 324 million
5 Sikhism 19 million
6 Judaism 14 million
7 Bahá'í Faith 6.1 million
8 Confucianism 5.3 million
9 Jainism 4.9 million
10 Shinto 2.8 million

i don't think it's an emergency

To sustain us.
To teach us morals, respect, authority.