The "Primitive Religions" were born in the five Continents, more than 3,000 years ago, mostly in the form of "Animism", because they believed that everything has a "soul", an "anima" in Latin, a "spirit"... including animals, plants, rocks, mountains, rivers, stars... each "anima" is powerful, spiritual, that can help or hurt them, including the souls of the dead, the "ancestors".

For thousands of years they deified animals, stars, idols of any kind... and practiced Spiritism, witchcraft, divination, astrology... and they used magic, spells, enchantments, superstitions, prayers, amulets, talismans, charms... often with the worship of an Absolute, or the Great One...

Today Animism is represented, among others, by the Mormons, Hinduism and the New Age. They proclaim that every human is God, and their practices will help each one to realize it.

God, for the Animist, is not a person... as for the Hindu, god is the Energy, the Force, the Power, the Universal Mind, the Absolute, the Unknown, the Divine Being... is not a "he" but an "it"... it is not somebody but something... but something powerful able to get wonderful things for you using Magic... and worshiping it!... yes, worshiping the Force or the Energy...

Since god is not a person, there are no revelations from a non-person... you never find in Animism or Wicca or Hinduism, God said... Yahweh calls...

The gods never existed, they are the product of novels or the imagination... they are myths, legends... but they never existed and they do not exist today.

The big problem is that "Today" an estimated 40% of the world's population is animistic (Van Rheenen), including all kinds of occultism, often in syncretism with Christianity, Islam, Buddhism...

The Animism is attractive because infuses the sacred into the real life, and mainly, because offers people a way to cope with one's everyday needs and problems: Healing of an illness, to be successful in a business, or in love, or to find a job, or to restore a soured relationship, to find a mate, to gain guidance for the future...

The animist views the "formal religions" as being relevant with respect to "ultimate" issues, but irrelevant when it comes to addressing the "immediate" issues of everyday life... which is totally wrong!, because Christianity, Islam, and all "formal religions" deal with issues of every day's life... but this is the reason why a Christian or a Jew go to the witch or consult the Zodiac... They go to church on Saturday or Sunday to take care of their soul, and they go to the witch or astrologer on Monday to take care of their business or illness... absolutely wrong!...

Come to Jesus... Believe in him!... is the solution of all the problems in this life, and on top of the glorious life on earth, he offers you eternal life of joy in Heaven.

The World View of Animism:   

    Pantheism is the first logical consequence of Animism: All the world is divine: A mountain is god, a rock, an animal... you are god!... though you can't make stars not even atoms, but you are god!... a planet, and even a cockroach is god!... they are the "idols" often mentioned in the Bible.

    Polytheism is the next obvious consequence: There are thousands of gods... the concept of 333 million deities is believed to emphasize the fundamental doctrine of Animism, Hinduism, Wicca...   

    The first verse of the Bible contradicts these views: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... so, in the Bible, there is one God, a person, and everything else in the world are creatures of God... God created and is the soul and life and is inside everything, but everything is not God... there is only one God, Creator.

    Of course, for Animists or Hindus, the aim of this life is to stop the relentless and frightful reincarnation, and become nothingness, not-a-person, but the drop of water in the ocean of the Absolute... for a Christian, an eternal life of joy is waiting, and not like a drop of water, but as a person, recognizable by God and by every neighbor... a person!, an individual!, eternally!, as God is an eternal Person!... eternally in Hell or in Heaven!...

    Would you risk eternal Heaven or Hell for something you are not sure off?... are you sure eternal Hell does not exist?... for 2 billion people now on earth it is a fact, like Paris or Moscow... believe it or not... like it or not.  Heaven-Hell

We will analyze:

    In Africa: Santeria, Voodoo, Egyptians...

    In Europe: Witchcraft, Greeks, Romans, Norse...

    In America:
        - North-American Indians.
        - South America: Mayas, Incas, Aztecs... cannibalism, skull-hunters...

    In Asia: China Ancestors, Hindus, Babylon...

    In Oceania: Totemism, Maori, Ancestor-Spirits...

    Quotations from the KJV and NIV in The Bible Gateway