Wednesday, October 30, 2013

notes

Islam/Muslim
  • Islam is a monotheistic belief in a god or gods and is an Abrahamic religion
  • Muslims most live in Indonesia, Iran , Turkey, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India.
  • The Qur'an book is like our bible
  • Followers of Islam are called Muslims
  • It is a belief that God is one, and the purpose is to love and serve him
  • It is also believed that Islam is the universal version of faith, and was revealed through Abraham, Jesus, and Moses
  • Allah
  • Allah is the one and only god who should be worshiped and obey
  • Allah is absolutely and completely perfect to them
  • No one shares divinity with Allah, neither angel nor human
  • Allah never sleeps, gets tired, or dies
  • Humans are not created in Allah's image
  • Humans can ask Allah for anything they want
  • 5 pillars of Islam practices
  • they must pray 5 times a day (get on the ground and face Mecca)
  • Haji means pilgrimage, which is the process of becoming Islamic
  • the haji consists of several ceremonies
  • they sacrifice sheep and the meat is distributed to friends
Christianity
             denominations are:
  • roman catholic Baptist Presbyterian Lutheran protestant Methodist Mormon Jehovah's witness Quaker orthodox
  • 50 percent of Christians are catholic
  • population there are roughly 2.8 billion Christians in the world about 1/3
  • Christianity emerged in the Levant in the mid 1st century, Christianity spread Jerusalem throughout the near east.
  •  BUDDHISM
  • a religion indigenous to the Indian subcontinent that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs, and practices largely based on teachings.
  • 6% of the worlds population is Buddhism
  • the top 5 countries that practice Buddhism are china, japan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar
  • one of the oldest practices

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