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The thing I love about religion is that there are thousands of them, yet yours is the correct one? Those are pretty low odds.
Yeah... "thousands of them" is overexaggerated. That being said, there have been a lot of faiths, myths, and mysticism throughout human history..
Here's an interesting timeline of belief systems.
I grew up Mormon and had a hard time believing that we were the "true church," "taught the true teachings.," etc., when I learned about how many different current and old religions and beliefs people had throughout human history. Cracks started to form in my faith foundation then. The following thoughts throw me for a loop back then. Exibit A. Exibit B. Exibit C.
I think it's funny that the timeline you provided counts time since Jesus. The attempt to erase AD is interesting but it still counts time since Jesus.
Those "Exhibits" are interesting. The first I would counter that God does whatever God wants to do. People get hung up on that one a lot and think God needs to conform to their expectations. The second is a bit odd, people convert religious beliefs all the time. It's speaking to a certain audience that does believe or is questioning what they parents taught them. The last I would counter that of the 3,000 supposed Gods only one God has dominated the Earth resulting in a majority of people on the planet worshiping him.
Both the Tree of Religion and the Religion Timeline use Common Era as their year notation.