Today in class we started a new unit which is called 5 more religions. This is our last unit of the semester, this class and my last unit with this teacher. Here are the notes that we took below.
- Christianity has around 2.2 billion people who follow
- we call them christians
- their geographic location is Europe, The Americas, And Southern Africa
- Denominations- Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Church, protestants(Lutherns, Methodists, baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Many more)
- Founder-Jesus Christ(Christianity is Abrahamic in origin)
- Holy book-The bible, especially the New Testament(gospels)
- Beliefs- Jesus is both human and divine- the son of God, he lead a virtuous life, he was crucified, Died and buried and resurrected, He ascended into heaven where he reigns with God the father
- Clergy- The pope is head of the Catholic Church, priests are the local authorities
- Islam has around 1.5 billion people follow this religion
- call them the muslims
- Geographic location-Indonesia, Middle East, North Africa
- Denominations- Sunnis(75-90%), Shiites(10-20%)
- Founder- Muhammad (570-632)
- Holy book- Qur'an (Koran)
- Beliefs- monotheistic abrahamic
- Five pillars- testimony, prayer, alms-giving, fasting
- Muslims see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah(God), and observing islamic Law
All in all todays class was pretty good and it was weird to write 2019 on all of my assignments.
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