Saturday, October 13, 2012

Religions

Christianity
Christianity was founded in the first century in Palestine by the disciples of Jesus.  Christianity is the worship of only one God, so this is Monotheism.  Christianities holy book is the Bible, and it also claims to be possible the largest religion with 1.7 people who are Christians.  The central figure of this religion is God/Jesus.  For the geographical concentration, I have no idea what it mean so when I looked it up it gave me nothing.  Then after lots more searching it said that it is where the most amount of those people live per capita.  When I finally found it, it told me that United States was the country with the most Christians  and that is a reliable source and it sounds good.

Islamic
The Islamic Religion was founded in the seventh century by Muhammad, and was founded in what is now Saudi Arabia.  This religion is also monotheistic, they believe that there is no God worthy of worship except for Allah.  Yes, Islamic religion does have a holy book, and it is called Quran. There is about 1.57 billion followers of this religion.  Most of the followers are in middle east, such as India, Indonesia, Pakistan etc.

Buddhism
Buddhism was founded in the sixth century in India.  Buddhism is basically monothestic because it is all only Buddha, the central figure of the religion, even though there may be more than one form of him.  There is no actual holy book for this religion, there are between 300 and 500 million followers. Ninety-five percent of Buddhist live in Thailand.

Hinduism
Hinduism was founded in India in the early 1500's.  This religion is polytheistic, they do not really have a main worshiper because it is polytheistic, so they just worship all of the goddesses and gods.  They have several holy books, one being Vedas.  It is the third largest religion in the world, with 900 million followers.  Most Hindu's are found in India.

Judaism 
Judaism is one of the oldest religions today that are still in existence.  There is no exact date of when it was founded but people believe it was during 2000 BC, and was founded in Israel.  This religion is also monotheistic, and their central figure would be God, they believe that God is in existence.  Their holy book that they worshiped is called the Torah.  There are about 14 million followers in the world today, while the majority of them are still in the place where it first started, Israel.






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