Im trying to make a point to my friend about religion. I know these 3 religions were all invented relatively close together. I want to show similarities in these religions. Then show him a map of the world and how all languages are similar in there nearby areas. Like all asian languages are written in those characters, middle east all in script. Europe and now america canada all in the roman alphabet.

I want to show him that those three religions borrowed alot of ideas from each other and could have been invcented by the same person or persons.

Both Islam and Christianity are born of Judaism. Judaism originally started out as a nomadic religion. So it's hard to say where it was first "invented". You should read a bible to find out more.

I thought Judaism was invented by the Jews When Moses showed up?

Prior to that... however Judaism originally absorbed much of the Zoroastrian religion, I think that was originally in Summerier...

But essentially it was in the fertile valley surrounded by the Euphrates and Tigress rivers, now modern day Iraq...

The religion of Islam was not invented and did not borrow any ideas they were all original. Islam is based on god and has some reactionary ideas such as anti-infantcide. Also the Holy Qu'ran is very different to the torah and the bible in that it rhymes.

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The religion of Islam was not invented and did not borrow any ideas they were all original. Islam is based on god and has some reactionary ideas such as anti-infantcide. Also the Holy Qu'ran is very different to the torah and the bible in that it rhymes.

Some quotes came from an Angel of Abraham or something, that manipulated biblical figures. Go figure.

Judaism - ?

Christianity - Jerusalem, Israel

Islam - Current day Saudi Arabia

Judaism was tribal, yeah. What I heard was it was originally based on family gods and ancestor worship. I think Elohim was the family god for Abraham. Then in the book of Exodus Moses discovers that this god's true name is Yahweh. The religious texts for Judaism were compiled around 600 B.C. or so, and the Old Testament / Tanach represents Judaism at that period of time (since it was passed down orally before then, the stories undoubtedly changed as the religion evolved).

Christianity is a mixture of a bunch of things. Some were off-brand Jewish sects, others were mystery cults like Mithraism, which is based of Zoroastrianism. Then later on a system of centralized churches sorted out the True Christian(tm) texts from the stuff they disagreed with. After a few centuries of developing church doctrines Christianity came into something resembling its current form, which followed Europe into the Dark Ages.

Islam is a mixture of the polytheistic gods in the Arabian peninsula at it's creation (Allah was the moon god) and Judeo-Christianity. That's really all I know about its origins.

I haven't studied all this very much, and so much misinformation is out there on religion. So don't take my words too seriously.

Edit: oops, you said "where." My bad. Yeah, they were all started in the Middle East, Islam further down into the Arabian peninsula, and Christianity was spread out a lot over the east Mediterranean (some Gnostic-Christians were in Egypt) in its development.

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Judaism - Ur

Christianity - Jerusalem

Islam - Mecca

Basically.

Wasn't Ur a Babylonian(spelling!?) city?

Yeah. It's also where Abraham, founder of Judaism, was born and bred.