Notes on Religions

ISLAM

-          Islam is a monotheistic which is belief in a god or gods

-          Abrahamic religion

-          Qur’an is their Bible

-          Called Muslims

-          Most are located in the Middle East

-          Don’t eat pork

-          Belief is that God is the one, and they need to love and serve him

-          Believed that Islam is the universal version of faith was revealed through Abraham, Jesus, and Moses

-          Think Jesus is just a prophet

-       Allah: the one and only god who should be worship and obeyed

-          Supposed to be perfect

-          No one shares divinity with Allah

-          Never sleeps

-          Humans aren’t created in Allah’s image

-          Can ask Allah for anything

       5 Pillars 

       Every male Muslim is supposed to go to Mecca once in their lifetime

 j     Hajj means pilgrimage, which is the process of becoming Islamic

       They sacrifice a sheep and share it and then cut off their hair 

fj    CHRISTIANITY 

J      Different groups of Christianity (ex: Baptist, Protestant, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, etc.)

j       50.1% of Christians are Catholic 

        2.8 billion Christians in the world (Third of the worlds population)

d      Believe Jesus is the Son of God and he is fully human and fully divine 

        Emerged in the Levant in the mid 1st century 

      BUDDHISM

         Is a religion indigenous to the Indian subcontinent that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs, and practices largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) 

fj      6% of the worlds population

        Most Asian countries practice this religion

        

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