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To: Dayuhan who wrote (17510)	4/25/2000 8:58:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

In India, a paganism whose beginning is shrouded in the mists of time continues, so that even if the worship of Zeus and Odin has vanished, the worship of Kali and Rama persists. About 5% of the Indian population is not even Hindu, but counted as "animists". Among the Parsees of southwest India, a religion that began in Persia about 500 B.C. has its remnant of devotees, and in Sri Lanka, Hinayana Buddhism, which also began several centuries before Christ, persists. In Japan, Shinto, which is so ancient that its origins are obscure, continues to be observed, and among the Chinese, Taoist and Confucian practices can be found. There are still shamans from Siberia through some of the Pacific Islands, across the Americas, and into Africa, among more primitive tribes. In modern times, there has been an attempt to revive a form of Druidism through the practice of Wicca, and in Haiti and Cuba, Western African animism melded with Catholicism to produce Voudoo and Santeria. Judaism, of course, has already been around for at least 3500 years, and would likely still have sacrifices at the Temple had it not been destroyed. With software developers who still wear yarmulkes, or have statues of Ganesha in their offices, I would not be confident in any prediction about how people will worship in 2000 years......