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• Christianity, Judaism (c. 2114 million adherents)

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

--Genesis 1:27 (King James Version)

• Islam (c. 1300 million adherents)

• Atheism, secularism, non-religious (c. 1100 million adherents)

['Man is a rational animal, embued with a soul']

--Aristotle

Darwin

• Hinduism (c. 900 million adherents)

Just as a person, having cast away old clothes, take up other, new ones, so too does the embodied, having cast aside old bodies, assume new ones.

It cannot be cut, or burned, or wet, or dried. It is eternal, all-pervasive, stable, unmoving and everlasting. It is said to be unmanifest, inconceivable and unchangable.

--Bhagavad Gita 2:22,24

• Animism, Primal-indigenous religions (c. 400 million adherents)

Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother, and are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their children?

--Black Elk Speaks

• Chinese traditional religion (c. 400 million adherents)

• Buddhism (c. 380 million adherents)

See it as a bubble,

see it as a mirage:

one who regards the world this way

the King of Death doesn't see.

--Dhammapada #170 (Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu)