5 Major World Religions
In class today, we began learning about the first three major world religion, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. We learnt about their holy books, founders, number of adherents, beliefs, clergies, and denominations.
We talked about differences in different denominations of religions, and the conflict between them. I know that Ireland and Northern Ireland/ England have a history of conflict between Catholics and Protestants that still exists today. My father and uncle once witnessed a group of Irish Catholics throwing bombs at Protestant British soldiers, and my grandmother growing up in a region that contained many IRA soldiers.
We also discussed how some beliefs are less religions and more a way of life, and the history of each religion we brought up.
For example, Hinduism is probably the oldest extant religion, and is a series of intellectual and philosophical points of view, rather than strict laws and beliefs like Christianity and Islam. These views include reincarnation, the belief that when a person dies, their soul transfers to another living being, so while the life of our bodies ends, our souls live forever, in many different forms.
We talked about differences in different denominations of religions, and the conflict between them. I know that Ireland and Northern Ireland/ England have a history of conflict between Catholics and Protestants that still exists today. My father and uncle once witnessed a group of Irish Catholics throwing bombs at Protestant British soldiers, and my grandmother growing up in a region that contained many IRA soldiers.
We also discussed how some beliefs are less religions and more a way of life, and the history of each religion we brought up.
For example, Hinduism is probably the oldest extant religion, and is a series of intellectual and philosophical points of view, rather than strict laws and beliefs like Christianity and Islam. These views include reincarnation, the belief that when a person dies, their soul transfers to another living being, so while the life of our bodies ends, our souls live forever, in many different forms.
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