What Are We Believe?

Religion is a universal term that is widely used for a human’s belief system. The views on how religions compare to one another can be defined differently. One view explains religions using a united belief system by their common goals. Another view explains that different religions are just a shared essence and have vast differences between their specific traditions and customs. This shared essence, but vastly different theory, is explained by Stephen Prothero, using the term “pretend pluralism”. There are many major and minor religions that have guided people in their morals and beliefs. Religions, such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. All five of these current, major religions have vast differences, but may have common goals in their morals, traditions, etc. Two of the most practiced religions, of these five, are Christianity and Islam. These two religions are constantly at battle with one another, but what many people don’t see is that there are just as many similarities between these two religions as there are differences. Through this paper we will discover the underlying similarities and differences between these two religions and, hopefully, conclude that supports either the common goal theory or the “pretend pluralism” theory.

Studies have shown that people who are the most religious believe more in magic and superstitious. “If we are so focused on a powerful “God” who controls our destiny, why do we not wonder who created?” questions like this come from those who have the strongest; belief in God himself (Carter 4). 70 percent of church goers do not fully believe in the back of their religion, or believe or what is supposed to happen after their death (Carter 5). With religious belief, there is no true religion. The more known religions is how an individual is born and raised into maturity. There are big differences in religion based on the theme of the nation. Most people who are born into a certain religion, there really is no changing it (Carter 6). In various parts of the world, mankind in based on superstition is the high advent of technology will slowly but surely distinigrate. Religion as it is, very few people will try and hold onto what they

In our present day, there are roughly 4,200 religions being practiced all over the world. Some are more popular and well-known than others, with a few of the main world religions being Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. With each religion, one can be slightly similar to one and completely opposite in beliefs to another; this is seen in the idea of the afterlife, in which Buddhism focuses on the idea of rebirth and awakening, whereas Hinduism and Jainism both believe in the idea of reincarnation until liberation.

There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of religions on the planet at this very moment. Why is mine right? Because I was told it was right? Is that really what I believe?

In the article, “On the Psychology of the Belief in a Just World: Exploring Experiential and Rationalistic Paths to Victim Blaming” by Kees van den Bos and Marjolein Maas, they used two ways to study the impact of just-world processes on the blaming of innocent victims. In Experiment 1, they assessed stable individual differences in which participants believed that the world is a just place, and in an unrelated part of the experiment, they examined the influence of those beliefs on participants’ blaming of victims of robbery and sexual assault. In Experiment 2, they built on the work by Hafer, who manipulated whether threats to the belief that the world is just whether they are strong or weak. Threats to the belief are strong, for example, when an offender

Studies have shown that people who are the most religious believe more in magic and superstitious. “If we are so focused on a powerful “God” who controls our destiny, why do we not wonder who created?” questions like this come from those who have the strongest; belief in God himself (Carter 4). 70 percent of church goers do not fully believe in the back of their religion, or believe or what is supposed to happen after their death (Carter 5). With religious belief there is no true religion. The more known religions is how an individual is born and raised into maturity. There are big differences in religion based on the theme of the nation. Most people who are born into a certain religion there really is no changing it (Carter 6). In various parts of the world mankind in based on superstition is the high advent of technology will slowly but surely distinigrate. Religion as it is, very few people

Every religion claims that they are the right and true one and that all of the other religions are wrong. There are many gods from present and past cultures. There are even cults and small, unique religions. How one know this singular religion is the right one? Believing in God in this case is just as “dangerous” as not believing god.

While there is no way of knowing which reality is the truth, there are two that are more widespread throughout the world. Polytheism and monotheism are the prevalent philosophies in the modern world. Religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and tribal religions are representative of polytheism. Meanwhile, the most popular religions in the west like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam make up the monotheistic religions. As a Catholic, my beliefs are pulled towards the direction of monotheistic beliefs. It is easier for me to imagine that there is one independent God looking after us and once our time on this Earth is done we will be judged for our

What does it mean to believe in something? Well I believe it is something that you just know and go with it.I believe in respect for everyone. I feel that if everyone had even a small amount of respect for people the world would have peace. I also believe that if people are to show some respect that it just might make someone’s day better if they were having a rotten day where no one has been listening to them, or cutting them off when they were driving. I know what you're thinking what if you don’t like a person because of a certain way they treated you. My answer is for you to give them the kind of respect that you would want them to give you and hope that it might help you out in the future when you meet up with that person again.

The challenges posed for religious believers by Religious diversity will be discussed in this paper. First, one must understand what Religious diversity is. Religious Diversity refers to religions making mutually exclusive claims that contradict one another. For this discussion, Religious Diversity will focus on contradictory claims on reaching salvation and connecting with god depending upon ones personal religion. This discussion pertains to all major western religions like Judaism, Islam, and Christianity especially, but other religions as well that claim to be the one absolute religion. These contradictions leave a religious individual with the dilemma of constructing an argument that rationally explains how there can be multiple

On this vast planet religions are becoming more prevalent and are being studied more frequently in recent times. Many individuals want to study and learn about the origins of some religions, on where they were developed and what was the cause of this glorification of a divine. The art of religion is processed by many ideologies, background, beliefs, myths, and rituals. The five major religions of the world include: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism are solely based on these ideologies, and ultimately leads to one goal, to follow the path of god, or to seek a euphoric state of salvation. In spite of all the differences among the world’s five major religions, they have very similar ethical constructs, which should encourage more mutual respect among them.

Every religion holds truth to the believers, and gives them a sense of identity. There is no right or wrong answer to the question of which religion to follow, only interpretations and behaviors according to what makes sense to the individual. People will behave as they believe (Beliefs and Believers, Class 1).

The world’s population is supposed to reach that of 9 billion people by the year 2050, which is a thirty-five percent increase from 2010 (Pew Research Centre, 2015). With the world increasing by thirty-five percent, this is going to directly change the religious population, as there is an increase of 3 billion people. This influx will have to decide what religion they want to practice. Religion can be defined as “the belief in and worship of a god or gods, or any such system of belief and worship” (Cambridge Dictionary, n.d.). The two religions that will be of majority in the future shall be that of Muslim and Christian religion. These religions believe in a superhuman power and many people all over the world believe in these two

We live in a world where religion is all around us. But why is everyone so interested in finding that right religion? Well, many believe that it will reconnect them with who they truly are and give them a reason why they are here on earth. Religion is a system of beliefs that involves the worship of God or gods, prayer, rituals, ceremonies, and a moral code. Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism are religions that are primary based on these things but one thing that they all have in common is that they recognize or sense a power higher than themselves and seek to follow it.

Regarding the "one true religion", this seems flawed concept. This is like saying English or Ancient Aramaic is the only valid language. It is as ridiculous as having a 1300 year old argument by people from the same religion about who their prophet favored for second in command. Most contemporary religions have more in common than they would ever be willing to admit.