you are right Jon14 that Buddhists do not believe in a parent figure Sky God, I was suggesting Buddhism was older than Christianity taking the Buddha as the founder of Buddhism who lived 500 years before Christ who I took as the founder of Christianity. If you believe that everything was created by God, who himself does not have a creation, but has always been, then I guess you have the upper hand in claiming your religion as the oldest ( even if there were no people around to worship him) I take it your question....which religion is older than Christianity? was not a question you really needed help in answering?