Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Some Important Religion Notes

ISLAM

Islam is a monotheistic religion it is Abrahamic.
The Qur'an is the Islamic bible. It’s considered to be the exact word of god.
Muslims live mostly in the Middle East.
Followers are called Muslims.
They also don’t eat pork.
It is the belief that God is one and the purpose is to love and serve him.
The God is Allah. He is the 1 and only God and he should be worshiped and obeyed.
Humans are not created in Allah’s image.
Humans can ask Allah for anything they want.
They do a prayer 5 times a day
During the month of Ramadan there is no food or water from sun up to sun down.
The males mostly always make a pilgrimage to mecca. The pilgrimage is called the Hajj. It lets Muslims from around the world to pray


CHRISTIANITY

50% catholic
36% protestant
11% orthodox
1.3% other Christian
There are 2.8 billion Christians in the world (about 1/3 of the total population)
Christianity is the largest religion in the world as of now
It is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ

BUDDHISM

Siddhartha Gautama is known as Buddha
6% of the world’s population is Buddhist
Mostly popular though the Asian people even though china doesn’t have really a specific religion.




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