Friday, October 19, 2012

Major Religions

 In the religion Buddhism there is no heaven. Their main person, Siddhartha, was really skiny becuase he believed in fasting. In the statues they portray him as a heavy person.
 Hinduism is the oldest religion. Their sacred texts are known as Vedas and Bhagavad- Gita.
Their is no founder. Their are over one billion Hindus in the world. 80% of people in India are Hindus, about 960 million. Judaism is the oldest surving monotheistic religion. It started over 3000 years ago when the convent between God and his people, from Abraham to Moses.  Its an ethnoreligion groups and their beliefs and laws are very much the same. Their sacred books and codes of law include the Talmud and the Torah. Their are 13.4 million Jews, 42% of whom live in Israel, with 42% percent living in America and Canada, the rest live in Europe. The Abrahamic God is the central figure of Judaism, the same God worshipped by the Christians and Muslims Isreal has been around since 1940's.

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