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5 Major Religions
Religion- organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, practices, and worship
- Hinduism
- devrived from a Sanskrit word that means "dwellers by the Indus River"
- No single founder
- Thousands of different Religon views
- Polytheisis
- No single Hundu book of doctrine
- VEdas- main book
- Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita
- Brahman- has severl gods
- Reincarnation of the soul, believe in noe present life are due to karma or accumulated good or bad behabior in past lives
- Purpose of life to obtain liberation from the cycle of reincarnation
- Mosksha- free themselves of earthly desire
- Darma- gets you good karma, right way of living behave and follow you will get good karma
- Cast System- outlawed of social classes, you could not move up,
- Four Stages of Life
- 12-24 educated and trained
- 24-48 Work, married, kids, make money, involved
- 48-72 mentor a young person start isolating the world
- 72- prayer is important
- Big Gods-
- Brahma (creator)
- Vishnu- preserver
- Shiva- destroyer
- Buddhism
- Judaism
- monotheistic and the first major monotheistic religion in history
- Some believe Judaism dates back to Adam and Eve
- Many historians say that it was established around 1800 B.C. as part of a covenant between God and Abraham
- Abraham would leave Ur( Babylonia) and go to Canaan (Israel)
- He would be blessed with many sons and his family would be given Israel
- Moses led the Jews out of Egypt(slavery) around 1500 BC
- Torah is the first five books of the Bible and contain the laws and teaching of Judaism
- 10 Commandments are the foundation of Judaism
- Sabbath is observed as a day of rest, starting at sundown on Friday evening
- 2.6% of US adults identify as Jewish
- Synagogues or temples worship is led by Rabbi
- Star of David
- Wailing Wall
- holiest place
- Romans destroyed it
- Believe in God the father (Yahweh)- created the universe
- Believe in Heaven
- Kosher Foods
- meat and milk cant do
- They can eat animals with cloven hooves are edible and chew their cud
- No camel, hyrax, pig, whales, dolphins
- minimize animal pain
- they don't hunt much
- problems facing Jews
- Diaspora- people are forced out of an area, scattered
- they were rich
- Pograms
- systematic of killing jews, raping, stealing
- Isreal established as a Jewish State after WW2 1947- present led to several wars and lot of terroism
- ISreal vs. Palesstinians
- "land of peace"
- Comments from former Iranian President Ahamidinejad and other Middle East Groups
- Christianity
- Cross- represents life, death, and ressurection
- Jesus Christ death made salvation and forgiveness of sins possible for everyone
- 3 days after his death he was resurrected and late assended into Heaven
- Easter- he rose from the dead
- First Christians were Jews who came to believe Jesus was the Messiah
- 78.4% US adults identify as Christians
- personal relationsjip with God
- saved by faith
- good works
- heaven and hell
- Bible- work of God
- Pray
- Go to church
- Disipline
- Father Son and holy spirt
- Christimas
- Easter
- Islam
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Thursday- notes
Friday- no school
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