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Hinduism: A Monotheistic Religion

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Today, there are over 18 million followers of Judaism making it the second largest religious group in the United States followed by Christianity. Judaism is a religion made up of just one minority of people: the Jews. Judaism is a monotheistic religion meaning, “only one God.” The God that the Jewish people follow is the Yahweh, who ultimately triumphed all of his rivals, making him the only God of the Jewish people. From Judaism came both Christianity and Islam. Which we will get to later on.
According to our text, “The Jewish people became bound to their God through a sacred contract known as the Covenant or the promise. Through this contract, the Jews had to remain constant in their worship of Yahweh and keep the faith which he …show more content…

According to our text, “The religion of the overwhelming majority of Indians is Hinduism, the fourth largest in the world with about one billion adherents. Hinduism is both more and less than a religion as the West understands that term: It is a way of life, a philosophical system, an inspiration of art, and the basis of all Indian political theories in the past. But it is not a rigid set of theological doctrines.” (Adler & Pouwels, 2011, p. 51).
The beliefs of Hinduism is unlike any other. Apart from Judaism, Hindus look to many Gods counting as high as the thousandths. Although Hindus look to many Gods, they often look to what is known as “Brahman” for the highest supreme spirit. Hindus often devote themselves to their individual Gods to seek fulfillment. Hinduism could also be seen as a caste system made up of four caste known as “Varna.” Caste is often determined by the families previous caste in other words, it is …show more content…

According to the online article Buddhist View on Death and Rebirth, “In the teaching of the Buddha, all of us will pass away eventually as a part in the natural process of birth, old-age and death and that we should always keep in mind the impermanence of life. The life that we all cherish and wish to hold on. To Buddhism, however, death is not the end of life, it is merely the end of the body we inhabit in this life, but our spirit will still remain and seek out through the need of attachment, attachment to a new body and new life.” (“Buddhist View on Death and Rebirth,

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