On Religion and Hindu Mithology

From the first moment I could remember, I was taught to have faith in what I could not see. I believed Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, despite the fact that I had never, even once, laid eyes on them. My family has always consistently attended church, so the idea of believing in a God that cannot be seen with the naked eye was something that I just accepted. As I have grown older, I have realized that there is a whole lot more to faith than just simply stating that something has an existence.

In recent days I had the opportunity to go back to North Carolina for a few short days. There, with a heavy heart from a loss in the family, I had nothing else to look towards. I’ve always heard of individuals finding peace, faith, blessings, and love of Christ from attending church. I’ve never been a person who put their faith into a higher power. As I was growing up my parents never wanted to force me into any religion without me knowing everything about it and choosing which route to take on my own. As the years treaded on, I never bothered myself to learn about the many different religions and what each stands for. So I used this opportunity as mine to attend church for the very first time. I attended the Roman Catholic services held

On Sunday September 27, 2015, I attended St. Jerome Catholic Church. The address for this Catholic Church is 116 Denbigh Blvd, Newport News, VA 23608. The service started at 12pm that Sunday afternoon and Father Jong Bayta gave the reading as well as held the communion for the church. There were two other fathers there as well; Father Thomas Pasiden and Father Luke Sanchez. They didn’t say anything throughout the service but helped Father Jong when needed. I soon found out that they were in training to open up their own church soon.

though some individuals believe that religion is not really a very significant part in one’s

Hinduism is a polytheistic religion and is more than two thousand years old , and began in India. Hinduism most important gods are Brahman, Vishnu, and Shiva. Vishnu is the god who preserves and maintains creation , and Shiva is the god of power, change, creation, and destruction.

The religious belief system of Mithraism is not something that is heard and practiced by many in the modern world. Although there is not much light shed upon this religion, it is still a belief system with many interesting quality and depth. Mithraism s a religion that is similar to Christianity, as it follows similar principles and beliefs, but what they believe in and why they believe it is quite different as it originated in first century B.C. in Greece by Iranians. It stands independently as a religion with many practices that must gain more recognition. This is because their belief system can be dated back to ancient history, with faith that was rooted through different virtues. Not only that, but many rituals and

I’ve seen this at young adult church organizations as well. They get a nice little pool of money from the church which these people make sure to use with only their friends. A new member tries to apply and they act all friendly and kind in front of others and in emails. Then these “Christians” become passive aggressive and conveniently leave out event and contact information.

Originated in the Indian subcontinent, Hinduism is the world 's third largest religion and the oldest living religion, ranging from 2500 BCE to present. Hinduism referred to as, “A major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, which developed from the Vedic religion.” Many people have searched for any documentation or evidence of the founder of Hinduism only to conclude that Hinduism was a collection of several paths of wisdom and reasoning rather than a specific founder. For this reason, Hinduism has been open to interpretation as ones see fit, thus contains no central rules. As a result, Hinduism has a broad range of philosophies including to honor the past and continue to add-on, and life after death, reincarnation. To many people Hinduism is not just a religion, but rather a way of life. Also, Hinduism has influenced various religions, including Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Hinduism has become one of the world’s largest religion, not solely from the fact that it has numerous followers, but also from the influence and impact it has on other religions. Hinduism, composed of five developments is not just a religion, but rather a life filled with rituals/philosophes.

Hinduism is a religion that is practiced by many. It has many beliefs and there are several different Gods as well as rituals. They worship in a sacred way that is done to show respect towards their beliefs. In this paper I will be discussing and giving brief descriptions on each of these things to give you a better understanding of Hinduism and how the religion is practiced.

I really never had the chance to think for myself on how I wanted to belief and what I personally

When I showed up to one of the Sunday’s meetings, I felt welcomed straight from the beginning, even without knowing anyone yet. Then, after talking to several people, it was easy to notice that hospitality was one of the fundamental virtues of this community. The church values relationships and sees evangelism, discipleship, and the missional engagement as an extension of friendship with God, with each other, and with people outside of the church walls. The existing missional focus of the community is to reach out to young adults from different cultural backgrounds. It is commendable that the church values racial diversity and aims to develop a sense of belonging for everyone.

Religion is one of the most vital and personal parts of a person’s spirituality. Christianity

puja, or worship, ritual purity is emphasized; the time for prayer and offerings to the

There are a lot of beliefs and religious thoughts that each person in the world believes in according to his religion. So, the world includes a lot of religions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, Buddha but the most popular two religions are Islam and Christianity. Religion is a basic thing in a person life. Every person in the world should follow what his family is following with religion, for example; my family they are Muslims. I should follow what my family is following but I have a friend whose family is Jewish but he is Catholic because he read a lot of Christianity books about what is the truth about this religion. The general picture of religion is a complicated picture and it’s complicated because every religion has its own book and the person who is following that religion should be tied (like they should be stuck with it) to the thoughts and beliefs of this book. I’m from Kuwait, Kuwait is a country in the Middle East and the Middle East is known with Muslims people. I’m a Muslim and as I said, each person should follow his family religion but there are some people who read and trust in other religions than their family’s religion. I followed my family religion but I didn’t understand it very well and I was only mimicking what my father was doing. I heard a lot of ideas and thoughts about my religion Islam. They were a lot of stages that faced me when I was growing up in my religion life and they were tough stages and I want to say that I struggled a

Not too long ago, a Catholic lay minister, “John,” approached me to discuss a concern he has with his parish’s lay evangelization ministry. In addition to their parish’s weekly prayer service of fifty participants, this ministry organizes and facilitates a quarterly Catholic Evangelization Congress for their deanery that gathers between three to five hundred people. Consequently, some lay ministers have given greater importance to the major quarterly religious services they organize for their deanery than to their parish’s weekly prayer service, going to tremendous lengths to bring renowned speakers that would draw the greatest number of participants. This is frustrating to John because these lay ministers have expressed minimal interest in discovering how to engage many of these participants more effectively. Unfortunately, many of them do not attend the prayer services—and seldom attend the Sunday Mass as well—unless a popular Catholic (ordained) minister is participating. John wonders if the ministry is providing a disservice by ignoring this issue.