Religion Paragraphs

 Christianity was founded by Jesus after his death. Christianity traces its root to Judaism but they believe Jesus was their savior. Christians believe Jesus was both human and divine, but there are many different denominations of Christianity with slightly altered beliefs. They also believed in the 12 apostles and Saint Paul who spread the word of Jesus right after his death. They believe in a holy book called the Bible. The Pope nowadays is head of the church, and priest are authorities. Christianity is prominent in Europe, the Americas, and Southern Africa. Christianity is a monotheistic religion.

 Islam was founded by Muhammad. Islam has 1.5 billion adherents, and they are also called Muslims. Islam's holy book is the Q'ran, the Q'ran contains the five pillars of faith.  Shahadah, Salat, Hajj, Zakat, and Swam. Each pillar has a meaning, they are the testimonial, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage. Most notably is the Hajj (pilgrimage). The Hajj is the journey that they each have to make at least once in their life where they go to worship at a cube in Mecca. There are two denominations, the Sunnins and the Shiites. Muslims are mainly in Indonesia, Middle East, and North Africa. Islam is a monotheistic religion.

 Hinduism is a special religion because there is no founder. hinduism has 1.1 billion adherents. The Hindu holy book is called the Vedas, the Vedas is a big collection of songs.The word Veda means knowledge. It is believed that the Vedas were orally revealed by Brahma to certain sages, who heard them and passed them down in an oral tradition. hinduism is found in India and Nepal. Hinduism is a polytheistic religion.

 Buddhism was founded by the Buddhist who was Siddhartha Guatama. Buddhism has 500million-1.5billion adherents. Mainly in Asia, China, Nepal, Japan. four main denominations, the Tibetan, Zen, Theravada, and Amisist. Buddhist believe in the four Nobel truths. 1- there is suffering, 2- attachment to desire is origin of suffering, 3- the creation is suffering, 4- eightfold path will get rid of suffering. You can be Buddhist and also be any other religion at the same time.

 Judaism is the root religion of Islam, and Christianity. All of them believe they came from decedents of Abraham. There are 14-18 million Jews. They are mainly in the United States or Israel. They have a holy book called the Torah. The Torah refers the the five books. These books are Genesis  Exodus, Levictus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Jews are set apart from Christianity because they do not believe Jesus was a savior, but they believe he was a person, but not the savior.