You know your stuff! Thank you very much. But few quick questions..
One... do Religions have to replace indigenous culture!?
Two what is the culture of Religion!? My point being is Mohammad S.A.W hailed from Ngoni would islam be faumously Ngoni Like!?
What about the ancestors of places where they didn't receive the message of prophets are they hell bound!? There is no Good ending for them!?
If there is a good ending for them (Ancestors) and I decide to follow their religion will I be rewarded the eternal peace!? Or hellfire will be inevitable!?
Finally the two major religion do coincide with emergency of two of the biggest modern empires.. Ottoman and Roman. One might argue these were just tools for culture harmonisation for easy access to bigger markets and Dominance.. wouldn't you agree!?
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To your first Qn--- Do religions have to replace culture??. What is a culture??, from the book titled; General studies by Dr, M P Nyerembe on page 39, it runs:-
"Culture can be defined as all that which has been created by man, but excluding all that man has obtained through nature, in other words culture is the totality of the ways of life of people in their struggles to live and develop in a given society". Thus the answer to your Qn is Yes and specifically speaking a religion to replace indigenous culture is Islam.
Let me explain a bit about pre islamic era in Irabia, before Islam a great majority of Arabs would commit all grave immoralities you would imagine today as part of their culture, they would eat human flesh (canibalism), sleep with their mothers, fathers sleep with ther daughters, commiting murder, lying, drunkardness, idol worship (idolatry), killing their daughters, having a daughter was regarded as shameful thing, to mention just a few, however there are number of vices committed by the pre islamic Arabs, studying the Arabs history one would find Arabs at that time were the least uncivilized society in the world, but God had a plan, the least civilized men to produce a most spiritual revered man to cleanse them spiritually and cleanse other people too, by cleansing the spiriatul wretched Arabs and make them be leaders of world in many fields apart from religious, the man was also destined to teach spirituality to the whole world. The man is Prophet Muhammad (saw).
Your Qn no,2---, what is culture of religion?? If Muhammad (saw) did come from Ngoni tribe would Islam be famously Ngoni like???---- the answer is no, take this analogy, prophet Muhammad (saw) hailed from Arabs but Islam has got no Arabs Culture, Islam per se its teachings are principally to be firstly derived from the Holy Qur'an and secondly from the authentic books of Hadith (the recorded sayings of the Holy prophet), if there is any Custom in a culture which complies with the teachings in those two sources then the custom is Islamic and it must be advocated rather than frustrated. Islam is a Culture in itself from God for all humanity.
Your Qn no 3,---what about the ancestors who had not received the prophets messages, are they hellbound ??---- the answer is no, they will never ever be hellbounds, the resson being; God never punish a man to whom no messenger have been sent, He will punish in the hereafter those to whom the mesengers were sent and they fersake them. How then will the ancestors be treated on that day considering they had no messenger to warn and teach them about God and morality??, the answer is God the wise will give them a soecial respite on that day (era) and He will give them some thing like a messenger the same thing like it were here on earth, those who follow him would be paradise bound and those who reject would be hell bound. People of that nature of life (hermit) are to found even today, there are number of tribes in the deepest of Amazon forest who have never experienced the outside world, they are untouched by the outside world, there are people who live on top of ranges of Himalayas mountains who don't know anything about the outside world, no any messenger or a messages of any religions have reached them, when they die the will be treated in the hereafter in the same manner I have mentioned.
Qn no 4, --- the coincidence of the two major religions and the emergency of the two empires, ottoman and the Roman.
First of all Christianity emerged later after Roman empire, Jesus the founder of Christianity was born to see the Roman empire existing before him, read the Bible and you will find one man went to Jesus enquiring him if it was right to pay tax to Ceasers (kaisari the Roman Empiror), Upon replying to the man Jesus told him to show the inscription on Dinar and he asked the man whose picture in the inscription was that???, the man replied it was kaiser's, then Jesus told the man to give Kaiser his due and God His due. All in all the two religions have no relevance whatsoever with emergency of the empires and no evidence can be found that tha prophets Jesus (as) and Muhammad (saw) teachings had connections with the empires.