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Christianity
Community of Faith
Religious Teachings or Doctrine
Religious Experience
- Catholics believe that Jesus was alive on earth and that he will come again to judge the living and the dead.
- Jesus opened the gates to heaven for all Christians
Leaders
- The Pope (Current: Francis)
- Bishop
- Preist
- Deacon
Laity
- Follow all commandments
- Follow "The Golden Rule"
- One God with three names
- Father
- Son
- Holy Spirit
- Don't sin and if you do, get forgiveness
- Go to church on the Sabbath
Morality
Sacred Stories
Sacred Symbols or Rituals
- Follow the 10 Commandments
- Be the best person you can be
- Follow the Golden Rule
- Have respect
- Try not to sin
- Go to church
- The Bible
- The Old Testament
- The New Testament
- Matthew
- John
- Mark
- Luke
- Jesus' Parables
- Stories of The Bible
Fish
- Used to be secret
- Now a widely known symbol of Jesus
Cross
- The best-known symbol for Christianity
Buddhism
Community of Faith
Religious Teachings or Doctrine
Religious Experience
Buddhists experience religion through religious teachings.
- Ultimate goal is Nirvana
- Once one reaches Nirvana, they are no longer reincarnated
- Everything changes; nothing is permanent
Judaism
Morality
Sacred Stories
Sacred Symbols or Rituals
Community of Faith
- Live life well
- Have good Karma
- Remove ignorance, desire and greed
- Be nice to others
- Reach enlightenment or Nirvana
Religious Teachings or Doctrine
Pāli Tipitaka
- Means "Three Baskets"
- Three different sacred texts
- Contain rules, discources and systematic expositions of the Gautama Buddha
Mahayana Sutras
- A very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures
Religious Experience
Dharmachakra (right)
- Represents the noble 8 fold path
Swastika
- Signifies auspiciousness and good fortune
- Found in most Buddhist temples and Buddhist homes
- Follow the 613 commandments
- Do right no matter what wrong is done to you
- Follow all commandments to get to heaven
- Jewish people go to synagogues.
- Their messiah is said to come to earth in the future.
- It has not come yet
Morality
Sacred Stories
Sacred Symbols or Rituals
Islam
- Follow the 613 commandments.
- You can reach heaven only by following the commandments.
The Tanakh
- Torah
- Nevi'im
- Ketuvim
- Total of 24 books
The Star of David
- Typically used as a modern sign of Judaism
Circumcision
- A covenant of circumcision is made with Abraham and his descendants in the Torah.
The (7 Candle) Menorah
- Lit year round
- Represents the 7 day creation middle being the sabbath.
Religious Experience
Religious Teachings or Doctrine
Community of Faith
- Muslims must pray 5 times every day
- The prayers are done with the chest in direction of the Kaaba a building in the center of Islam's most sacred mosque (Located in Saudi Arabia)
- Muslims pray in a position of pure submissiveness called prostration
- Allah is the one and only God
- You must worship only Allah
- You will go to heaven if
- You had believed and worshiped Allah
- You had done good deeds
"Wish for your brother what you wish for yourself."
Morality
Sacred Stories
Sacred Symbols or Rituals
- You should pray 5 times daily and stay pure to Islam
- You must do good deeds for the well being of others
- If you do these you may go to heaven
The Crescent Moon and Star
- This symbol represents Islam
- It did not originate as Islamic.
- This symbol does NOT mean that Muslims worship a moon God. Muslims ONLY worship Allah.
The Qur'an
- Originally written in Arabic
- Some Muslims want to learn the entire Qur'an off by heart
- The Qur'an has many scientific references for example the number of times the words sea and land are mentioned is in perfect ratio with the amount of sea and land on earth, and what's interesting about this is that the Qur'an was written long before we knew the exact ratio.
Hinduism
Religious Experience
Community of Faith
Religious Teachings or Doctrine
Hindus worship one God in millions of forms. Their religion is divine and their Gods have many different forms and stories.
- Belief in one god, in many different forms.
- It is the dharma of all Hindus to live a good life because of reincarnation.
- Everyone is subject to Samsara
Morality
Sacred Stories
Sacred Symbols or Rituals
- Main goal to have a good life to get better in your next reincarnation.
- Treat all equal and live well
- The Vedas
- 3000 Years old
- Collection of different forms of text
- The Upanishads
- Stories and Parables told from teachers to students
- The Mahabharata
- A story of a war between two royal families.
- The Ramayana
- A story of the god Rama
- The Swastika (to the right)
- Represents the Brahman in his universal manifestation.
- Meditation
- A sacred ritual referred to as Moksha and is similar to Buddhism's "Nirvana"
Ninian Smart’s Six Trait Model of Religion
By Chris